Fritzl, now 88, was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for the murder by neglect of a new-born baby he fathered with his daughter Elisabeth while holding her in the purpose-built basement of his house.
The depraved rapist fathered seven children by his daughter Elisabeth while holding her captive as a sex slave in a dungeon he built under his home in Amstetten, Austria, for 24 years.
The reginal court in Krems, some 80 kilometres (50 miles) northwest of Vienna, approved the application of Fritzl to be transferred out of the jail he is currently in for the mentally ill who pose a high degree of danger, to a regular prison.
(Photo by Joe Klamar / AFP) (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)] Fritzl’s lawyer Astrid Wagner has said she will apply for parole next month and given his old age and frail health, she is optimistic he will be freed.
In January last year, a regional court ruled Fritzl no longer posed a threat to society and gave the green light for him to be transferred from a high-security prison to a regular jail.
