Submarine killer admits threatening several people on brief prison break

Police officers attend the scene after Peter Madsen was apprehended Picture: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AP

A Danish man convicted of murdering a Swedish journalist on his homemade submarine has been remanded in custody after he confessed to threatening several people on his brief escape from jail.

Prosecutors said Peter Madsen threatened a psychologist and a warden on his way out of the Herstedvester prison in Copenhagen and allegedly pointed an object that looked like a gun at the driver of a van once he was outside the facility.