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Incest dad Josef Fritzl kept his mum locked in a sealed room for 20 years until she died in revenge for allegedly abusing him.

He made the astonishing revelations to a psychologist preparing a report for his trial next year.

Fritzl, 74, claimed: “She used to beat me until I was lying in a pool of blood.

“I never had a kiss from her or a cuddle.”

He originally told friends she died in 1959 but now reveals it was 1980 – meaning she was imprisoned for two decades.

He said: “I locked her up at the top of the house. I then bricked in the window so she never again saw the light of day.”

Fritzl locked up daughter Elisabeth for 24 years near Amstetten, Austria. He raped her and forced to have his seven children.

He told the psychologist: “I was born to be a rapist.”

She is recommending he is never freed.