Sheffield Incest Case - "British Fritzl"

"British Fritzl"

The defendant in the case was referred to as the "British Fritzl", "The Gaffer", a name he called himself, or "Mr. X", due to a court order to protect his daughters and their seven surviving children, his name could not be revealed publicly. He was responsible for bringing about many pregnancies with his two daughters since the early 1980s until his arrest in 2008. Parallels were drawn between him and Josef Fritzl, the perpetrator of an Austrian incest case which came to light a few months previously. The defendant received 25 simultaneous life sentences and a minimum term of nineteen and a half years in prison, reduced to a minimum of fourteen and a half years on appeal.