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Josef Fritzl trial: court hears daughter's account of cellar ordealThe Austrian woman held captive by her father in an underground prison for 24 years yesterday confronted her father with the full horror of her incarceration in hours of testimony delivered to the court where he is on trial.In his first glimpse, albeit audiovisual, of Elisabeth Fritzl since he released her from her cellar almost a year ago, Josef Fritzl was forced to sit through the taped testimony shown in the courtroom to eight jurors - four men and four women - in the city of St Pölten on a huge television screen.Journalists were excluded from the session, held in camera. But Elisabeth's testimony, recorded over four days last summer, formed the central points and arguments of a 30-page indictment, a copy of which was seen by the Guardian. It details how she was imprisoned in the purpose-built cellar at Ybbsstrasse 40 in the town of Amstetten at the age of 18. Fritzl has pleaded guilty to charges of incest, rape, coercion and false imprisonment but is contesting the charges of murder and slavery.The indictment states: "He chained his daughter up, strapping up her arms and tying her hands behind her back with an iron chain, which he then secured to metal posts behind her bed. She could only move approximately half a metre either side of the bed."After two days he gave her more freedom of movement by attaching the chain around her waist. Then around six to nine months into her imprisonment, he "removed the metal chain", because "it was hindering his sexual activity with his daughter".-snip-
