The spectral courtroom presence of Elisabeth Fritzl may have tipped her father into abandoning his defence case and admitting yesterday to the murder of their baby.

伊丽莎白·佛里芝尔出现在本已压抑的法庭现场，这使得她父亲放弃了辩护并与昨日承认谋杀自己的亲生幼婴。

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The daughter and three of the children fathered by Fritzl were kept captive in the cellar until the case came to light in April last year, when one of the children became seriously ill and was taken to hospital.

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