'British Fritzl' and his 27-year reign of terror shocks Britain...

A violent rapist with a "one-second fuse" who fathered 19 children with his two daughters during a reign of domestic terror lasting a quarter of a century was ordered yesterday to spend the rest of his life in jail by a judge who described the case as the most shocking he had ever heard.

An urgent review is under way into how it was that 10 of the children conceived by the women – who had been repeatedly beaten, abused and raped since the age of eight and 10 – were miscarried or terminated, yet their mothers' plight failed to come to the attention of welfare work.

Judge Alan Goldsack QC said: "As a result of this case, questions will inevitably be asked about what professionals, social and medical workers, have been doing for the last 20 years." More...

See also:

1. Singapore: moron jailed for 32 years for raping his 5 under-age daughters...
2. Somalia: 13-year-old girl raped by three men; they go free, but the victim is stoned to death.
3. Josef Fritzl is declared "sane..."
4. Fritzl-like case in Poland: man accused of raping his daughter and holding her captive for 6 years...