The resolution to switch Josef Fritzl – who stored his daughter captive for twenty-four years and raped her hundreds of occasions – to a daily jail has been overturned by an Austrian court docket, native media studies.
The Vienna Higher Regional Court (OLG) overturned the choice, made in January, to maneuver the 88-year-old to a daily jail, information company APA report.
The preliminary ruling was made on the idea that Fritzl not posed a hazard.
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It would have additionally possible paved the best way for him to be launched from jail right into a nursing house.
Ferdinand Schuster, spokesman for the decrease court docket within the city of Krems an der Donau, reportedly mentioned the choice by the OLG was primarily based on the truth that the newest psychiatric report on Fritzl needed to be up to date.
“Unlike the court of first instance, the OLG came to the conclusion that the necessary facts for a decision on a conditional dismissal have not yet been clarified,” APA quoted a report from the court docket as saying.
The OLG has ordered the decrease court docket to ascertain extra information earlier than reaching a contemporary resolution on whether or not Fritzl will be transferred.
This resolution is anticipated in April, APA reported Mr Schuster as saying.
The resolution over whether or not to switch Fritzl to a daily jail has been ongoing for a number of years and examined by the OGL a number of occasions earlier than.
Fritzl, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for crimes together with incest, rape, and enslavement – has been in psychiatric detention in a high-security unit at Stein jail.
He has since modified his identify to at least one that has not been made public.
Source: information.sky.com”