Essex Fritzl’ who preyed on daughter for three decades jailed for 12 yrs

September 16th, 2009 SYDNEY - An Australian kept his daughter as a sex slave for 30 years and fathered her four children in the Melbourne house he shared with his wife, the Herald Sun newspaper reported Thursday. The case has clear parallels with Austrian Josef Fritzl, who was jailed for life earlier this year for keeping his daughter prisoner in a cellar and fathering her seven children over 24 years of sexual abuse.

June 5th, 2009 London, June 5 (ANI): Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl, who raped and imprisoned his daughter for 24 years, will be moved to a jail wing for mentally abnormal offenders to serve his life sentence, it has been announced. The 74-year-old's shift to Stein will "keep him safe from attack" by fellow-convicts, said Austrian prison boss Karl Drexler, reports The Mirror.

April 11th, 2009 LONDON - Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who has been convicted of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless cellar and fathering her seven children, is begging his family through phone calls to visit him in jail, it has emerged. The calls, however, usually end with kids hanging up on him, prison officials said.

March 29th, 2009 LONDON - Michele Mongelli, the 'Italian Josef Fritzl' who kept his daughter prisoner and brutally raped her for 25 years, was known to police, it has emerged. Listening devices had been placed in the handset of Mongelli, a 63-year-old a scrap metal dealer in Turin, as part of the probe against him and his son Giuseppe, 41.

March 28th, 2009 LONDON - In his first interview from the prison cell, Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl has claimed that he tried to make life "as pleasant as possible" for the daughter he raped for more than two decades and her kids. The 73-year-old held Elisabeth in a secret dungeon for 24 years.

March 28th, 2009 LONDON - A man, dubbed 'Italian Fritzl', and his son have been accused of the serial rape of their daughters. Cops have revealed that Michele Mongelli, 64, kept his daughter prisoner and brutally raped her for 25 years.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl has been moved to a cell with CCTV in a bid to stop suicide attempts. Officials in prison fear that the 74-year-old may try to kill himself.

March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl is expected to chose a former nunnery converted into a comfortable modern prison as the place in which he will serve his life sentence. The 74-year-old has been jailed for murder, rape, enslavement, coercion and incest after caging his daughter in a rat-infested dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children by her, six of whom survived.

March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A 36-year-old man, dubbed the "English Fritzl", chained a 15-year-old schoolgirl to his caravan and kept her as his personal sex slave, it has emerged. Scrap dealer David Cooper even forced her to take part in orgies.

March 21st, 2009 LONDON - A day after Josef Fritzl's case came to a close in Austria, the trial of a 46-year-old man accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter opened in northern Poland. Krzysztof B, dubbed the "Polish Fritzl", took the stand on Friday after he allegedly raped his daughter repeatedly and kept her prisoner for six years.

March 17th, 2009 LONDON - Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl raped his daughter up to 3,000 times in his home-made dungeon, it has emerged. Yesterday, the full horror of Fritzl's vile crimes were laid bare in a courtroom.

March 14th, 2009 LONDON - Josef Fritzl, the Austrian incest fiend who held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, has been offered a choice of luxury prisons if he doesn't appeal his sentence. The 73-year-old goes on trial on Monday for repeatedly raping his daughter and caging her for more than two decades, reports The Sun.

March 13th, 2009 LONDON - Josef Fritzl, the Austrian incest fiend who held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years, has claimed that Elisabeth begged him to kidnap a second victim to keep her company. Elisabeth, now 43, spent more than two decades in a home-made dungeon under the family home, reports The Sun.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Josef Fritzl, the Austrian incest fiend who held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years, has become a pariah at Austria's Sankt Poelten jail, say sources. According to sources, the 74-year-old is a virtual recluse.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Josef Fritzl's sex slave daughter Elisabeth is being pestered by a deranged stalker, it has emerged. Fritzl held her daughter captive in a dungeon beneath his home, raped her since she was 18 years of age, and fathered seven children with her.