Josef Fritzl could be moved to care home - reports - BBC News

The sex offender, who is now 88 and has dementia, was jailed for life in 2009 in a case that shocked the world.

14 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Josef Fritzl kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with herBy Bethany BellBBC News in ViennaJosef Fritzl, the Austrian sex offender who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, could be moved from a high-security prison, local media reports.

Fritzl, now 88, was jailed for life in 2009 in a case that shocked the world.

Austrian public broadcaster ORF reports that a new psychiatric report on Fritzl, who has dementia, says he no longer poses a danger to the public.

It means a court may now decide whether to move him to a normal prison.

Fritzl is being held in a high-security institution for mentally disturbed offenders in Stein Prison, in the town of Krems an der Donau.

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