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Fritzl, 88, wants to "roam free" on the Scottish Highlands should he ever be released after he was imprisoned in Austria for holding his daughter Elisabeth captive for 24 years in his home
Josef Fritzl has boasted of his intent to "roam free" on the Scottish Highlands if he is ever released from prison in Austria.
Fritzl, who is now 88 and has dementia, was caged in 2009 for holding his daughter Elisabeth captive for 24 years in the cellar of his home in Amstetten, about 80 miles west of the Austrian capital Vienna.
Over the years, the monster repeatedly raped his own daughter and fathered seven children with her. He was sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility for parole for 15 years and is currently being held in Stein Prison.
Fritzl had been ruled to no longer be a threat to public safety, according to the latest psychiatric report and has revealed his desire to swap his Austrian confines for the open fields of Britain should he secure release.
"I was filled with this wonderful, uplifting feeling, this sense of inspiration for this fantastic culture," he said according to The Sun. "And it was then I knew that when I get released, it is not Austria I want to stay [in], rather I want to emigrate to the UK. Above all I want to roam free on the wild Highlands of Scotland."
"For me the lush green fields of Wales are also very, very appealing. But the main thing is it’s to the United Kingdom I am headed," he added in the interview. The Mirror has contacted Fritzl’s lawyer for comment.
In January 2021, the UK government banned foreign criminals sentenced to at least one year in jail from entering the country.
Fritzl repeatedly raped Elisabeth, his own daughter. ( Image: Ian Vogler)
A regional court in Austria approved Fritzl’s application to be moved to a regular prison in January, but this was later overturned. A fresh decision about the transfer is due next month after the lower court establishes more facts about the case.
Fritzl kept Elisabeth as a sex slave in his house of horrors when she was between the age of 18 and 42. His sickening crimes were revealed when he took one of the children, born as a result of incest, to hospital due to a life-threatening illness.
The sex fiend then brought Elisabeth and two of her children upstairs and told his wife that she had returned home after falsely claiming she had been elsewhere for decades.
Both Fritzl and Elisabeth were taken into police custody in April 2008 where the gruesome extent of his crimes were revealed.