EVIL Josef Fritzl will stay locked up in a high-security prison as the decision to move him to a normal jail has been overturned.
The transfer would likely have paved the way for the incest monster, 88, to be freed into a nursing home after developing dementia.
Louis WoodJosef Fritzl, 88, was pictured smirking as he arrived at court in January[/caption]
In January, Fritzl was pictured smirking as he dramatically won his bid to be moved to a regular prison.
The beast hoped it would lead to his release after 15 years behind bars for crimes including incest, rape, and enslavement.
Fritzl was jailed in 2009 after locking his daughter, Elisabeth, in the basement of his home in Amstetten for 24 years and fathering seven children with her.
He told a court in Austria that he deeply regretted locking his daughter in an underground cellar, and that he had dealt with the crimes “intensely”.
A court in the town of Krems an der Donau ordered the transfer on the basis Fritzl, who has changed his name to one that has not been made public, no longer posed a danger.
But today an Austrian court overturned the decision to move Fritzl – and sent the case back to the Krems an der Donau court for a new decision, which is expected in April.
Fritzl has been held in psychiatric detention in a high-security unit at Stein prison since he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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