By Sara Malm for MailOnline
Published: 16:46 GMT, 19 March 2019 | Updated: 16:46 GMT, 19 March 2019
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Josef Fritzl, jailed for life for keeping his own daughter as a sex slave for 24 years. is suffering from rapidly deteriorating health and inmates believe he is aware that he is near the end.
Fritzl, 84, kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a soundproof dungeon in the basement of the family home in Amstetten, Austria, raping her over 3,000 times and fathering seven children with her.
Her ordeal finally came to an end in April 2008, when their sick teenage daughter Kerstin had to be taken to hospital, and Fritzl was jailed on March 19, 2009.
Evil monster: Josef Fritzl, pictured at the time of his arrest in 2008, was jailed for life after confessing to imprisoning his daughter Elisabeth in a windowless cellar in the basement of the family home in Amstetten, north-west Austria, on August 24, 1984, keeping her there for 24 years, raping her thousands of times, and fathering her seven children
Dying: Fritzl, now 84, pictured at Sankt Poelten prison where he was previously held, in 2010, is reportedly suffering from dementia and 'has resigned to dying' according to fellow inmates
Fritzl, who is currently behind bars in Krems-Stein
