Fritzl, 89, was jailed in 2009 for keeping the children, born after he raped daughter Elisabeth, in an underground lairCredit: Handout But his lawyer Dr Astrid Wagner told The Sun on Sunday ...

The Fritzl case broke in 2008 when a woman named Elizabeth Fritzl told police she had been impressed and sexually assaulted by her father Josef Fritzl for the last 24 years. In March 2009 ...

I'll do everything I can to make her happy help her forget this." The girl's case appears to echo that of Elisabeth Fritzl who was abused by her evil father Josef for years in his cellar in Austria.

The horrific case came to light ... to cut all ties with him. Josef Fritzl went to great lengths to conceal his crimes, convincing his wife that his daughter Elisabeth had run away.

This is obviously not the case. It is a fantasy ... which is 50 miles north west of the capital, Vienna. Fritzl imprisoned Elisabeth in the basement of his home in Amstetten, Austria.

The acclaimed author conceived the award-winning Room after reading about the Josef Fritzl case. In 2008, the world was appalled when Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, told police she had been held captive by ...