She said that former electrical engineer Fritzl, who created a lair under his family home in the quiet town of Amstetten to imprison Elisabeth and her children, said he passes his days in his cell reading and watching TV.
Fritzl’s lawyer Astrid Wagner told the Daily 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.
The bid for freedom by Fritzl, who was moved from a psychiatric facility to a normal prison in Austria last year, is likely to outrage his victims and his family members.
Lawyers revealed that the deluded child killer, jailed for life in 2009 for a series of shocking crimes including rape, incest and false imprisonment, believes that he would receive a great ‘fanfare’ on his release.
Fritzl was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and for the negligent homicide of one of his infant sons.
