Evil Josef Fritzl could be FREED from jail & back on...

EVIL Josef Fritzl could be freed from jail this year and believes he will be met with people "cheering and wanting to shake his hand," his lawyers have revealed. Fritzl, 89, was jailed for life in 2009 after keeping his daughter locked up as his sex slave for 24 years. The Austrian fiend, who fathered seven kids with her, was moved from a high-security psychiatric unit to a normal prison earlier this year.

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Now his lawyers have revealed they will submit a parole application in weeks - and are confident he will be released having served a mere 15 years for his heinous crimes. Fritzl's lawyer Astrid Wagner told the Mirror: "We will start an action in March and call for parole and if the court rejects it we will appeal and given his condition I believe he will be released by next year. "He wants to live close to where he previously did and he wants to live alone but I think that is very unlikely given his age and condition.

Image Credit: The Sun [Monster Josef Fritzl has been moved out of his maxiumum psychiatric unit to a “nice and spacious” jail cell]

"He would need a carer and none of his friends or family want to know.". Fritzl began molesting Elisabeth when she was 11, before imprisoning her in a filthy cellar in Amstetten near Vienna in 1984. Three of the children he fathered lived with his daughter in windowless, soundproofed rooms behind a reinforced concrete door, three were raised upstairs in the house, and one died shortly after birth. Fritzl is said to have burned the tragic baby’s body in an incinerator and scattered the ashes in the garden.

Image Credit: The Sun [Fritzl imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years and fathered seven children with her]

His crimes came to light in 2008 when the eldest of the children, Kerstin, became seriously ill and had to be taken to hospital. The twisted monster was jailed the following year, aged 73, for rape, incest, enslavement, false imprisonment, and murder by negligence. It was also astonishingly revealed that Fritzl believes he would receive a great "fanfare" on his release. Lawyer Wagner explained: "He believes that when he is released, he will come out to a big celebration with people cheering and music and wanting to shake his hand.

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"This is obviously not the case. It is a fantasy. I don't think he fully understands what the world really thinks. Every time I see him, he says he regrets his decisions every day. "He has ruined his life. He always talks about his regrets about his crimes. He thinks he has friends on the outside, but he hasn’t. "One thing he accepts is that his family no longer want to see him and respects that.". Psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner has come to the conclusion that Fritzl is no longer a danger to the public.

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Three judges decided to move the monster from his high security unit, thought to be the toughest in Austria's penal system, to a normal cell. This was initially on another wing at the same prison which is 50 miles north west of Austria's capital, Vienna. Wagner said that Fritzl "likes the new prison" and "being around young people" who choose not to interact with him. She even said that the deranged criminal believes that TV crews have visited him in his cell - but the lawyer tells him it's impossible "because he's not had a visit from anyone apart from me".

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Wagner added: "He's in very good physical shape. He will live until he is 100 I think but mentally he is showing his age.". Fritzl kept his daughter Elisabeth captive in a newly-built cellar complex, for 24 years, since 1984. The evil dad drugged and abused his daughter, raped her more than 3,000 times and fathered seven children with her. The heartless monster did not hesitate to toss the bodies of the children who died at birth into a furnace.

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Three of the children were raised in the basement by their mum while another three were brought up by sick Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie. Fritzl had convinced his wife their daughter had run away to join a sect. In a cruel twist, he forced Elisabeth to write letters to Rosemarie, claiming she was unable to care for the kids, asking her to raise them. It was only when Elisabeth's eldest daughter, Kerstin, fell critically ill that her ordeal came to an end in 2008.

Image Credit: The Sun [Photo of a small, child-like bathroom in a house used in a criminal investigation.]

In a rare act of mercy, Fritzl allowed Elisabeth to take the 19-year-old to the hospital. She managed to speak to police revealing the horrors she had suffered throughout the years. Her first words were "No one will believe me.". Elisabeth’s recorded 11-hour testimony led to Fritzl's sentencing to life imprisonment. Elisabeth and her children live now under adopted names after going through years of therapy, while Rosemarie, now 84, is believed to be living in a small flat in Linz - around 30 miles from the former Fritzl home.

Meanwhile, Fritzl's physical and mental health has deteriorated. In an exclusive interview with The Sun through his lawyer last year, Fritzl claimed he would see his family again one day. He also said he wanted to live to 130 and he was confident he would be able to do so if he drinks enough water. THE twisted dad asks his daughter Elisabeth to help him install a door in his cellar in 1984. She agreed and moments later she is drugged with an ether-soaked towel, tied up and chained to a bed.