The family of a Swedish journalist missing since a trip off Copenhagen aboard a home-built submarine said they fear “the worst has happened”.
The parents and brother of 30-year-old Kim Wall said “there is nothing we wish more” than to have her back alive, but added that the chances of this are “extremely small”.
Swedish journalist Kim Wall has been missing since last week (Tom Wall via AP)
The family told The Associated Press in an email that Ms Wall had worked in many dangerous places as a journalist, but it was unimaginable that “something could happen … just a few miles from the childhood home”.
Danish submarine owner Peter Madsen is being held on preliminary manslaughter charges over her Ms Wall’s disappearance after she went on a trip with him on his UC3 Nautilus sub, before it sank last week.
Madsen has denied any wrongdoing.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here