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Fatty Fritzl needs to go on a diet
By David Rogers
Prison doctors have advised incest monster Josef Fritzl to go on a diet after he piled on the pounds after refusing to exercise or do anything other than sitting in his cell staring at the walls since he was jailed for life in March.
Last month it was revealed that Fritzl was on the verge of a nervous breakdown after realising he was to spend the rest of his life in jail, and that he was showing early signs of dementia and memory loss after just a few weeks in Lower Austria's tough Stein jail where he is likely to die behind bars.
Before he was arrested, 74-year-old Fritzl had worked seven days a week carrying out all the maintenance himself on his property empire that included nine sites in and around his home in Amstetten which were rented out to local firms and private tenants. After his arrest he kept active working at his defence and hoping to realise plans to sell his life story.
But after weeks of inactivity and refusing to take up his exercise privileges, Fritzl has gained 12 kilos - and even the implanted hair which he spent a fortune on grooming has been falling out in large quantities leaving him badly balding.
Officials say Fritzl has been a broken man since he was forced to face his daughter Elisabeth in court and then changed his plea to guilty which resulted in a life sentence for incest, rape and the false imprisonment of his daughter and children. Since then he spends his days staring blankly at the walls, too scared to have contact with other inmates and doing little else other than eating.
Fritzl had planned to spend his days writing his memoirs but has been banned from writing them by the Austrian Justice Ministry. Now he spends his time alone in his cell, staring at blank pages with a pen in his hand, apparently at a loss to find anything to write. Also he has lost his desire to read newspapers and watch TV that filled his time as he prepared for his defence.
"He is a broken man," one insider was quoted as saying in the Austrian Times newspaper.
Austrian Times
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