Decision to transfer rapist Josef Fritzl to regular prison overturned by Austrian court

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Josepf Fritzl, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for crimes including incest, rape, and enslavement - has been in psychiatric detention in a high-security unit at Stein prison.

The decision to transfer Josef Fritzl - who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times - to a regular prison has been overturned by an Austrian court. The Vienna Higher Regional Court overturned the decision, made in January, to move the 88-year-old to a regular prison. The initial ruling was made on the basis that Fritzl no longer posed a danger. It would have also likely paved the way for him to be released from prison into a nursing home.

Read more: Who is Josef Fritzl? 'Unlike the court of first instance, the Vienna Higher Provincial Court came to the conclusion that the necessary facts for a decision on a conditional dismissal have not yet been clarified,' the court said in a statement. The decision over Fritzl's potential transfer to a regular prison has been going back-and-forth in court for a number of years and the case has been examined by the higher court several times before.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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