Mother jailed for killing four infants

AN Austrian woman who stuffed the bodies of two of her four infants into a freezer and entombed two others, in plastic buckets filled with cement, was yesterday convicted of three counts of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Gertraud Arzberger, 33, was convicted by a court in the southern city of Graz, bringing to a conclusion a macabre crime saga that stunned and gripped Austria.

Her live-in companion, 39-year-old Johannes Genser, was convicted as an accessory to the crimes and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.