Headless torso is missing Swedish journalist

Danish police have identified a headless female torso found in the Copenhagen waterside as that of Swedish journalist Kim Wall.

Police believe the journalist was killed on a homemade submarine.

"DNA match between torso and Kim Wall," the police said on Twitter earlier today, declining to comment further.

A full police briefing is expected later today.

Danish inventor Peter Madsen, charged with killing Wall on his submarine, told the court she had died in an accident and that he "buried" her at sea, changing his previous statement that he dropped her off alive in Copenhagen.

The body was found on Monday by a passing cyclist and police said then it was too early to identify the body – which was missing its head, legs and arms.

The case has been followed closely by Danish and Swedish media and has drawn interest from around the world.

Madsen has been charged with manslaughter of Wall who has been missing since he took her out to sea in his 17-metre submarine on 10 August. He denies the charge.

He was rescued a day after his UC3 Nautilus sank. Police found nobody else on the vessel.