Josef Fritzl, the Austrian engineer who kept his daughter as a sex slave in a secret cellar underneath the family home for 24 years, will probably die behind bars, having been found guilty of a catalogue of crimes including the negligent murder of one of the seven children he fathered with his daughter.
The jury at St Pölten court sentenced him to life after finding him guilty on all counts – of negligent murder, enslavement, incest, rape, coercion and false imprisonment. He will serve his sentence in a psychiatric institution, his lawyer said.
Court authorities said that the life sentence would entail a minimum of 15 years in prison.
Fritzl accepted the verdicts and waived his right to appeal.
The homicide count of "murder by neglect" was the most serious of the charges against him, and the jury gave him the maximum punishment allowed by law.
The BBC is a day-by-day summary of the trial.
Here is some video.
At long last it was payback for what he did to his daughter and her children.
One thing about Austria, and that is at least there are speedy trials there, not trials that take a century as in this country, e.g. the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
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