Josef Fritzl's defence lawyer posts bizarre topless pictures from her mountain holiday after latest bid to have incest monster transferred from high security prison

Josef Fritzl's defence lawyer has posted bizarre topless pictures from her mountain holiday after the latest bid to have the incest monster transferred from a high security prison. 

Astrid Wagner, 60, shared several snaps from her hiking holiday in Austria, which showed her leaning against a fountain and fence - while wearing nothing but her hiking trousers.

The eccentric lawyer posted similar pictures in 2015, 2017 and 2020 due to 'great demand', but said she 'really [doesn't] want to provoke anyone' with her revealing photos after she was previously reported to the Austrian Bar for topless shots.

Wagner's most prominent client is Fritzl, 88, who has been incarcerated since 2009 after holding his daughter Elisabeth captive in his cellar in the Austrian town of Amstetten for 24 years, raping her thousands of times and fathering her children.

The Austrian defence lawyer is trying to get Fritzl released from the high-security psychiatric prison he is currently held in, claiming that he is no longer dangerous - but her latest bid has been unsuccessful.

A court in the town of Krems an der Donau had ordered in January that Fritzl be transferred to a regular prison from a prison psychiatric unit after being told he was 'no longer at threat of reoffending', but this decision has since been overturned.

Wagner helped Fritzl write the book 'The Abyss of Josef F', in which the incest monster described how he came up with the idea to hold his then 18-year-old daughter captive and the lengths he went to to explain her disappearance.

She shockingly said about Fritzl: 'He is not a beast.' 

His daughter Elisabeth, who is now 56 and has been given a new identity, previously said she hopes her evil father will be punished for his crimes 'until death'. 

Fritzl's trial heard he raped her 3,000 times in the rat-infested cellar and how he beat and kicked her and eventually had seven children with her.

The mother lived downstairs in the flat with her children - Kerstin born in 1988, Stefan (1990) and Felix (2002).

Meanwhile Lisa (1992), Monica (1994) and Alexander (1996) were raised upstairs in the home Fritzl shared with his wife Rosemarie in sleepy Amstetten in central Austria, 48 miles from Linz.

Another son, named Micheal, tragically died from neglect shortly after he was born.

Speaking through her lawyer Eva Plaz at her father's trial, Elisabeth said that she hopes he is never released.

'She wants the defendant to be held responsible until death,' Ms Plaz said.

Earlier the lawyer had told the court: 'The defendant has made himself the master of life and death. He must be punished for this.'

Fritzl, who has now changed his name to one not made public, has been in prison since his conviction in 2009 for incest, rape, enslavement, coercion and the murder by neglect of his newborn son. 

MailOnline reported that Elisabeth has build a new life with her bodyguard husband in an isolated riverside home just half an hour from the dungeon where she was held captive for 24 years, living opposite her oldest daughter Kerstin.

This comes after Fritzl wrote an apology letter earlier this year in which he claims he is a 'good father'.

'I regret all of my actions deeply. Kind regards, Fritzl,' the incestious rapist wrote.

'I was actually a good father,' he claimed, saying that he saved money for the 'children's education', that he visited them often, helped them with chores and even got them to learn instruments 'and so forth'.