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She is currently fighting for her life in the intensive care ward at her local hospital after she stopped eating, and is now only being kept alive by machines.

Her daughter, who until the tragedy was a refugee aid worker, said: "I knew it would eventually end like this."

The case has caused a scandal in Austria when it was revealed that the police had attempted to gloss over the crime of the 17-year-old asylum seeker, who when the case finally came to court was only given a 20-month jail sentence and who told them that when he was released, he would not be deported because the punishment was not more than three years.

After she was attacked in autumn last year, police admitted that they had covered up what had happened because of the sensitivity of the subject.

It was also revealed that she had been given no help or assistance to cope with her terrible ordeal from authorities.

The old woman previously had a positive attitude towards asylum seekers, and her daughter Sylvia was even a helper, working with refugees.