Submarine killer admits threatening several people on brief prison break

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.

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