This vaguely human, cancerous growth deserves no caption.

Austria’s most infamous recent addition to the world news canon Josef Fritzl (or as we like to refer to him The Daughter-Raping Bastard Who Deserves to Die a Thousand Deaths), has told his psychiatrist “I was born to rape and I held myself back for a relatively long time”.

Other gems among his personal insights include his description of being a “volcano” with a “flood of destructive lava that was barely controllable”. Such a tortured romantic notion of one’s self, I’m sure you’d agree.

The comments were revealed when a recent written assesment of his mental state was leaked to the press. Dr Adelheid Kastner concludes in her 130 page report that Fritzl is fit to stand trial and is “highly likely” to re-offend if released. Dr Kastner reveals much of her talks with Fritzl in the paper, which delves in some depth into Fritzl’s relationship with his mother who appears to have belittled him constantly from an early age. Well boo-hoo.

I find it difficult to extend my sympathy to a man over his troubled childhood when he has seen fit to lock his own daughter in a cellar for 24 years and rape her so frequently as to have fathered 7 children. There can be no justification for such actions by an adult regardless of their circumstances as a child, since millions of years of evolution have embedded in us all a fairly basic moral compass which I’m pretty positive says “this is wrong” round about the point where your own daughter is looking in your eyes crying, screaming and begging for you to stop sexually abusing her.

As a grown man, albeit with the propensity to be astronomically immature at times, I cannot, no matter how hard I try, even begin to understand the mindset of any man who forces himself upon a woman, let alone his own offspring and in such a horrendous, massively prolonged fashion as this.

As I ponder Fritzl’s remarks I find myself reminded of the words of author Thomas Harris’ character Will Graham, who said of another monster “As a child my heart bleeds for him. As an adult I think someone should blow him out of his fucking socks.”

Pass me the gun and I’ll do it with pleasure.