The director of a psychiatric clinic treating the family of dungeon master Josef Fritzl says teachers have started tutoring the children he fathered with his daughter.

Austrian authorities say a security guard has been injured in a tussle with a paparazzi photographer at the psychiatric clinic treating the victims of “dungeon dad” Josef Fritzl.

A judge ruled today that dungeon paedophile Josef Fritzl should remain in custody for at least another month.

Josef Fritzl has insisted he did his best to care for the daughter he repeatedly raped and their seven children.

Dungeon father Josef Fritzl, who had seven children by raping his daughter, is upset at being portrayed as a “monster” by the media, his lawyer revealed today.

The wife of an Austrian man accused of holding their daughter captive for 24 years fought to keep the troubled family together, but never knew their child was in a soundproofed cellar beneath the apartment, her sister said.

The wife of Austria’s accused “horror father” Josef Fritzl never believed her husband was involved in the 24-year disappearance of their daughter, even though he had already served an 18-month prison sentence for a 1967 rape conviction, her sister said.

An Austrian man who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered her seven children repeatedly warned his captives that they would be gassed if they tried to overpower him, investigators said today.

The man who kept his daughter and their children imprisoned in a home-made dungeon warned them they would be gassed if they tried to escape, police revealed today.

The Austrian dungeon ordeal children and their mother are inching towards normal life in a spacious hospital wing, doctors said today.

Police in Austria are examining links between the murder of a young woman and the man who has confessed to holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

Police in Austria are examining links between the murder of a young woman and the man who has confessed to holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

Police say they are investigating possible links between Austrian Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned and raped his daughter, and the unsolved murder of a young woman.

Long-lost members of an Austrian family terrorised by decades of imprisonment had an “astonishing” reunion at the clinic where psychiatrists are helping them cope.

Long-lost members of an Austrian family terrorised by decades of imprisonment had an "astonishing" reunion at the clinic where psychiatrists are helping them cope, authorities said today.

This week’s appalling discoveries in the Austrian town of Amstetten recall the case of Natascha Kampusch, the girl who spent eight years largely confined to an underground room in a Vienna suburb.

The Austrian pensioner who had seven children by his captive daughter appeared before a judge today looking calm and untroubled.

Austrian authorities have said the DNA tests conducted on Josef Fritzl, the man who had kidnapped his daughter for 24 years, have confirmed he is the father of his daughter's children.

The Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her suffered from a “power complex” and possibly other disorders, experts said today.

Horrified residents in the Austrian town where a 73-year-old man imprisoned and repeatedly raped his daughter for 24 years are questioning how he deceived police, neighbours and social workers for so long.

The man accused of kidnapping his daughter and fathering several of her children in Austria appeared before a judge today.

Austrian authorities say the case of the man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered at least six children with her is one of the nation's worst-ever crimes.

An Austrian man has confessed to holding his daughter captive in a “house of horrors” for 24 years and fathering at least six of her children, police said today.

A woman was held captive in a cellar for almost 24 years by her father, who repeatedly raped her and fathered at least six children, police said.