Josef Fritzl: I want to be punished

JOSEF FRITZL has given his first interview from his prison cell a week after being sentenced to life imprisonment.

"I wanted the hardest punishment," said Fritzl, 73, who changed his pleas at his trial last week to guilty on all counts including raping his daughter Elisabeth 3,000 times and the murder of a newborn child.

He said: "I tried to make life in the cellar as pleasant as possible for my second family - and in the course of the years, a partnership between my daughter and myself."

He said his fantasy collapsed at his trial when he came face to face with the daughter he locked up at 18.