A new film based on the story of the Austrian kidnap victim, Natascha Kampusch, shows her being repeatedly raped by the captor who beat and starved her during the eight-and-a-half years that he kept her in a cellar beneath his house.

Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who fathered seven children with his own daughter in a homemade dungeon, has divorced his wife of 55 years — because she has never visited him in prison.

Never trust a hippy, as they say, but David Wain’s Wanderlust (16s) seems to suggest that if it’s a choice between the currently broken model of liberal capitalism and a throwback to the happy-clappy commune living of the ’60s, then the latter is the best of the worst-case scenarios.

MEXICO City prosecutors have arrested a man who allegedly kept his two teenage stepdaughters captive for five years, fathered five children with one of them, then killed the other woman and one of the babies.

AUSTRIAN prosecutors investigating suspicions that an 80-year-old sexually abused his two mentally disabled daughters for 41 years said no children were born of the alleged incestuous relationships.

Austrian police say they are investigating allegations a man locked up his two mentally disabled daughters and sexually abused them for 41 years.

The basement of the Austrian house where Josef Fritzl imprisoned and repeatedly raped his daughter for 24 years will be filled up with concrete.

A GERMAN truck driver who fathered eight children with his stepdaughter and peddled her body to other men has been convicted of 162 counts of sexual abuse by a judge who called him a “pitiless egoist” and handed down a sentence that could keep the man locked away for life.

A GERMAN trucker admitted yesterday to fathering seven children with his stepdaughter, but denied sexually abusing her, her brother and his biological daughter over a 23-year alleged reign of terror.

AN Argentinian man has been charged with raping his daughter multiple times over three decades and fathering 10 children with her, in a case likened to that of Josef Fritzl in Austria.

THE house under which Austrian Josef Fritzl imprisoned and abused his daughter and the children he fathered with her should be reduced to rubble, a provincial judge has said.

IRISH author Emma Donoghue said being one of six authors on the Man Booker Prize shortlist is a dream come true.

ABDUCTION and rape followed by long-term imprisonment in a tiny, rudimentary space seems to have become a phenomenon.

Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich is to tread the boards in London playing a Josef Fritzl-style Austrian psychopath, it has been announced.

AT LEAST Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her — one of whom he murdered by neglect — felt the need to conceal his depravities.

A Polish court has convicted a man who held his daughter captive for six years, raped her repeatedly and fathered her two children.

A WOMAN has claimed that she was raped and imprisoned by her stepfather throughout her teenage years and that he fathered five of her children.

A man has been arrested on charges of raping his daughter for 30 years and fathering four children with her, it has been reported today.

A couple accused of snatching an 11-year-old child and keeping her imprisoned for 18 years pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges including kidnap, rape and false imprisonment.

THE inhuman cruelties inflicted by Phillip Garrido on Jaycee Lee Dugard, and those inflicted by Austrian Josef Fritzl on his daughter, were appalling.

A couple accused of snatching an 11-year-old child and keeping her imprisoned for 18 years today pleaded not guilty to dozens of charges including kidnap, rape and false imprisonment.

Police missed an opportunity to free Jaycee Lee Dugard in 2006 when they were called to the home where she was allegedly held for 18 years but failed to find her, a spokesman said tonight.

A COLOMBIAN accused of sexually abusing his daughter from a young age and fathering eight children with her was arrested at the weekend, causing anger over the lack of child protection in the Andean nation.

Evil Joseph Fritzl will spend the rest of his life locked up for the crimes that shocked the world.

Incest monster Josef Fritzl made a pathetic plea for mercy today from the jury that will decide his sentence.

The prosecutor called today for a life sentence for Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a windowless cell for 24 years and fathered her seven children.

IN a stunning turn of events, an Austrian on trial for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children pleaded guilty yesterday to all charges against him — including homicide. The move came after his daughter appeared unexpectedly in the courtroom.

Josef Fritzl came face to face with the daughter he raped for 24 years at his trial, sources confirmed today.

Josef Fritzl pleaded guilty today to all of the charges against him – including homicide – at his incest-imprisonment trial in Austria.

THE full harrowing ordeal suffered by incest rapist Josef Fritzl’s daughter was revealed in 11 hours of video evidence yesterday.

The full harrowing ordeal suffered by incest rapist Josef Fritzl’s daughter was spelled out in 11 hours of her video evidence to his trial today.

Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl returned to the courtroom today for the second day of his trial on charges he imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children.

The jury trying incest rapist Josef Fritzl will hear more evidence today from the daughter he imprisoned in a home-made dungeon for 24 years while fathering seven children by her.

Josef Fritzl repeatedly raped his daughter in front of the children he had already fathered by her during the 24 years he kept her in a secret dungeon, his trial heard today.

A man has gone on trial in Austria accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

JOSEF FRITZL, a 73-year-old Austrian who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, expects to spend the rest of his life in jail, his lawyer said yesterday.

The Austrian father who raped his daughter and had seven children by her expects to die behind bars, his lawyer said today.

The victims of Austrian Josef Fritzl’s incest dungeon have left hospital and set up home together, it was disclosed today.

The Austrian man accused of holding his daughter in a home-made dungeon for 24 years and fathering her seven children has been charged with murder.

JOSEF Fritzl, the man who imprisoned his daughter in a cellar and fathered her seven children, has admitted to locking up his mother until her death.

AUSTRIAN Josef Fritzl has secretly visited the cellar where he imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, police said yesterday.

The investigation in Poland of a man whose daughter claims that he imprisoned and raped her – and fathered her two children – might take months, a Polish prosecutors’ office spokesman said today.

Police investigating claims that a Polish man imprisoned and raped his daughter were seeking DNA samples today from the two children she says he fathered.

The woman allegedly held captive by her father for 24 years was reported to have been questioned by prosecutors for the first time today.