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Peter Madsen has been charged with killing the Swedish
journalist who disappeared after she went on a trip with him in
his submarine on August 10. He denies the charges.
Madsen, a Dane, was arrested after his submarine sank and he was
rescued. His lawyer Betina Hald Engmark told Reuters that she
had been informed of the development, but had not received any
material or documentation and decline further comment.
Police identified a headless female torso that washed ashore in
Copenhagen later in August as Wall's, but a cause of death has
not been determined.
Madsen has said Wall died in an accident when she was hit by a
heavy hatch cover on board his submarine.
On Saturday a police spokesman told reporters in Copenhagen that
there were no fractures to Wall's skull.
The body parts, a knife and some of Wall's clothes in bags
weighted down by bits of metal were found in Koge Bay on Friday
by Danish navy divers who are assisting the police.
Police spokesman Jens Moller Jensen told reporters on Saturday
that the body parts will be investigated further to try and
determine a cause of death.
He said that the Madsen and his lawyers had not had time yet to
react to the new evidence.
A police prosecutor said earlier this week that officers had
found images "which we presume to be real" of women being
strangled and decapitated on Peter Madsen's computer in a
laboratory he ran.
Madsen said the computer searched by police was not his but was
used by everyone in the laboratory.
(Reporting by Teis Jensen; editing by Alexander Smith)
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