London, Mar 16 : Jail officials have been keeping a close watch on dungeon dad Josef Fritzl to ensure that he does not commit suicide before his trial begins.

The 73-year-old Austrian held his daughter Elisabeth captive in a dungeon beneath his home, raped her since she was 18 years of age, and fathered seven children with her, while keeping her as a sex slave for 24 years.

Amidst tight security and huge media and public interest, Fritzl will appear in the dock in St Polten, around 40 miles east of his hometown of Amstetten.

London, Mar 14 : Josef Fritzl, the Austrian incest fiend who held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, has been offered a choice of luxury prisons if he doesn't appeal his sentence.

The 73-year-old goes on trial on Monday for repeatedly raping his daughter and caging her for more than two decades, reports The Sun.

Prosecutors say if he doesn't contest his sentence he can have a single cell in a luxury jail.

London, Mar 13 : Josef Fritzl, the Austrian incest fiend who held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years, has claimed that Elisabeth begged him to kidnap a second victim to keep her company.

Elisabeth, now 43, spent more than two decades in a home-made dungeon under the family home, reports The Sun.

She bore him seven children - three of whom were imprisoned in the cellar with her - before being rescued last April.

Vienna  - Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl was mainly driven by an abnormal yearning to exert power over his victims, who are likely to suffer the consequences of their ordeal all their life, psychiatric and psychological experts say.

The case of Fritzl, 73, who imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years and fathered her seven children, was unique in criminal history, the Austrian forensic psychiatrist Gerhard Haller said.

Vienna  - The trial of Josef Fritzl starting Monday in the town of Sankt Poelten will see the Austrian who imprisoned and abused his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years facing the rest of his days behind bars.

Around one year after it became public that Fritzl had fathered seven of his daughter's children, the 73-year-old stands not only accused of enslavement, rape, imprisonment, coercion and incest, but also of murder.

London, Mar 9 : A court will soon hear ‘dungeon dad’ Josef Fritzl claiming that he loved his daughter Elisabeth in his own way, and that’s why he kept her as a sex slave for 24 years.

The Austrian sex beast held his daughter Elisabeth captive in a dungeon beneath his home, raped her since she was 18 years of age, and fathered seven children with her.

The trial, which begins next week, will see the 72-year-old incest monster argue that Elisabeth was already having sex with boys when she was barely out of her teens.