A Styrian pensioner was beaten and chained up by a robber yesterday (Thurs), police in St. Margarethen an der Raab have said.The 75-year-old woman was in the bathroom of her house when a masked man suddenly appeared. The criminal, who did not say a word during the whole break-in, punched the woman in the face […]
A besotted man was arrested after he threatened his to kill his love interest when he was rejected last night (Sun/Mon).The woman invited the 36-year-old to dinner at her home in Linz, Upper Austria, last night (Sun) after they had been dating for some time. When the 29-year-old eventually told the lovestruck man that she […]
Police are hunting a Bosnian man accused of clubbing his wife to death.Miladin G. has been on the run since what is believed to be a wild argument at the family home in Pabing-Nußdorf, Salzburg, on Saturday. The mans wife, 41, was found lying in a puddle of blood on the bedroom floor. A 50-centimetre […]
A young man suffered several broken bones when he fell out of a second-floor window last night (Thurs/Fri).Roland P. opened the balcony door in the family home in Zwettl, Lower Austria, before falling over the handrail, police said today.The 21-year-old, who had never sleepwalked before, was found by his girlfriend who started looking for him […]
A Viennese teenager has been missing for one month, police have said.Officials in the federal capital announced today (Fri) that Karin P. never returned after leaving the family home in the city centre of Vienna on 10 January.The black-haired 15-year-old, who is 155 centimetres tall, occasionally phoned her family after that day. One investigator said […]
A three-year-old girl must have a guardian angel as she survived falling from a balcony yesterday (Weds).The child was clambering around on the balcony at the family home in Prutz, Tyrol, before she fell six metres on to a concreted area. She is being treated in a hospital in Innsbruck. Doctors refused to announce what […]
A confused elderly man tried to find his way home in a German town almost 400 kilometres from his Austrian hometown, it has been reported.Newspapers in Bavaria reported yesterday (Mon) that the 81-year-old from Vienna had wandered around a retirement home in Breitbrunn at the Ammer Lake for more than three hours on Saturday before […]
A dementia sufferer has died shortly after he was found lying on an agricultural field near Haslach wearing nothing but pyjamas, a vest and slippers.The 92-year-old Upper Austrian man was reported as missing by retirement home staff at 1am on Thursday morning. He was rushed to a clinic in Rohrbach after a police tracking dog […]
A convict allowed to spend the final months of his jail term at home wearing an electronic ankle shackle has been sent back to prison after having beaten up his wife.The 27-year-old man was arrested in Hohenems, Vorarlberg, and put behind bars in again in a prison in Feldkirch after his wife, 35, told police […]
Notes by incest monster Josef Fritzl have been destroyed by prison staff, it has been revealed.British newspapers report today (Thurs) that wardens at Stein jail in Krems, Lower Austria, found sickening drafts for an autobiography in the 75-year-olds cell earlier this week.The convicted rapist, serving a life sentence after admitted to rape, incest, murder and […]