Fritzl locked up his mother until her death

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.

The Austrian made the claims to a psychologist who was preparing a report on his mental state ahead of his trial in February next year.

“I locked [my mother] up in a room at the top of the house,” Fritzl said in the leaked psychologist’s report.

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