Copenhagen, Denmark (CNN) Danish inventor Peter Madsen pleaded not guilty to murdering Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his submarine last August, but acknowledged dismembering her corpse, as his trial began in Copenhagen on Thursday. Madsen faces charges of premeditated murder, indecent handling of a corpse and "sexual relations other than intercourse of a particularly dangerous nature," citing stab wounds inside and outside Wall's genital area. Wall, a promising 30-year-old journalist, was last seen after boarding Madsen's UC3 Nautilus on August 10 last year when she had planned to interview him for an upcoming article. Instead, according to the indictment, Madsen stabbed Wall multiple times before killing her, cutting off her head, arms and legs, then weighing her body parts down with plastic cable-ties and pipes before tossing them into the sea. Her head and legs were found weeks later.

Source: CNN March 08, 2018 13:32 UTC