Incest beast Fritzl given life term

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Fritzl, 73, has been sent to a secure psychiatric hospital for life after a jury in Austria formally convicted him of the rape, incest, murder and enslavement charges he had previously admitted.

Fritzl accepted the verdicts and waived his right to appeal.

The "murder by neglect" count was the most serious of the charges against him and the jury gave him the maximum punishment allowed by law.

Officials said Fritzl would not be eligible for parole for at least 15 years - and psychiatric experts would have to concur with any decision to free him.

Fritzl had changed his stance on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to all counts against him, including murder and enslavement, after he and the court viewed 11 hours of emotional videotaped testimony by his daughter, Elisabeth, whom he locked in a dungeon when she was 18.

"I regret it with all my heart... I can't make it right anymore," Fritzl told the jury in St Poelten, west of Vienna.

In a surprise move, Elisabeth appeared in the court as the jury viewed her testimony.

Elisabeth, now 42, and her six surviving children, who range in age from six to 20, have spent months recovering in a psychiatric clinic and at a secret location. Prosecutors described her as a "broken" woman after enduring multiple rapes, some in front of her children.

The homicide charge stemmed from the 1996 death in captivity of an infant boy. Prosecutors said the ailing newborn born to Elisabeth, a male twin called Michael, might have survived if Fritzl had arranged for medical care.