On Wednesday at 13:00 Danish time, Peter Madsen was found guilty of the murder of Kim Wall, and sentenced to life in prison.
By Danish standards, that is an unusually harsh sentence, as he had no prior convictions of any kind, but this was an unusual case in many ways, as the trial has shown.
I have written about the Peter Madsen trial before (here and here), and don’t really feel that I can add more to the story.
Peter Madsen has said that he will appeal the conviction and sentence.
When someone has been sentenced a lifetime sentence in Denmark, they rarely serve the full time, and are eligible to get freed on parole after 12 years. This is not likely to happen in the case of Peter Madsen though, since you have to be considered to no longer being an danger to society – something which it is unlikely anyone will say about Peter Madsen for a very long time.
I’m glad to hear it. Madsen is a very dangerous person.
Me too.
That was a bizzare case, and he sounds like a really horrible (and dangerous) person. I’d rather not be sharing a planet with him.