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Doctors have revealed how the teenage daughter of Austrian rapist Josef Fritzl said "hello" to them as she was woken from a coma - and later said she wants to go to a Robbie Williams gig.

Kerstin was unconscious and critically ill when admitted to hospital on April 19 and placed on a life support machine.

She was put in a medically-induced coma and has now been successfully revived.

At a news conference in Amstetten, Austria, doctors said her recovery had been surprising and "a great relief". There should be no major lasting damage.

Kerstin, 19, was the eldest of seven children fathered by Fritzl, 73, and his daughter Elisabeth, who was imprisoned in a dungeon underneath the family home in Amstetten for 24 years.

"She opened her eyes and showed emotions for the first time, we laughed and she laughed," said Amstetten hospital chief Albert Reiter, adding that Elisabeth Fritzl was able to quickly visit her daughter.

"It was important that the mother came to her daughter's bedside," said Mr Reiter, noting the hospital had managed to keep these visits hidden from the media.

Doctors revealed how they had created a flat for the family where they could live a normal life. Three teachers are providing the children with lessons.

Kerstin is having therapy to rebuild her emotional and physical strength. She has been taking steps accompanied by her mother.

She can read and write and has expressed the desire to go on a boat and to see a Robbie Williams concert.

Mr Reiter said: "Even three days before her breathing apparatus was removed she was lying there almost dancing in her bed listening to Robbie Williams, so for me that was really the time when we (decided to) force through the mobilisation."

Kerstin had spent her entire life in the windowless cellar with her mum, now aged 42, and two brothers.

Three of her other siblings lived "normal" lives as Fritzl's "grandchildren" while another child died shortly after birth.

Doctors told reporters the family's reunion had been "a wonderful coming together - beautiful to see".

Kerstin's admission to hospital lifted the lid on the 'House of Horrors' abuse scandal.

Her mother and siblings are currently staying at a nearby psychiatric clinic.

Fritzl, who remains in custody pending charges, had confessed to the abuse, police have said.


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The wife of the man who tried to bomb a London Tube station has been convicted of keeping secret his plans for "carnage and mass murder".

Yeshi Girma, 32, knew all along of Hussain Osman's plot to massacre travellers at Shepherd's Bush station on July 21, 2005.

But she did not warn police of the attack, the Old Bailey heard.

It was only because of the fact that the bomb had been put together so badly that there was not a repeat of the July 7 attacks that had rocked the capital two weeks earlier, killing 52 people.

Girma, of Stockwell, south London, was found guilty by the Old Bailey jury of having information about terrorism and "without reasonable excuse" failing to disclose it.

Just over half an hour after his failed attack on the station, Osman was on the phone to his wife to set in motion an escape plan, the court heard.

Girma, the mother of Osman's three children, helped him flee to Brighton.

He later took a Eurostar train to Paris then travelled on to Rome, where he was arrested.

The court heard that Girma knew her husband had fallen under the spell of radical Islamists.

She even allowed him to take their young son away to a training camp in Cumbria where he met four of the five other July 21 plotters.

Her own fingerprints were discovered on tapes featuring "extremist Islamic preaching" by firebrands such as Abu Hamza.

Max Hill QC, prosecuting, said: "Yeshi Girma had prior knowledge of the events of 21/7. She had some information about what the bombers intended to do on 21/7, but failed to bring this to the attention of the police."

Girma claimed in court she did not live with her husband and knew little of the plot.

Mulu Girma, 24, from Brighton, and Esayas Girma, 22, from Stockwell, Yeshi's sister and brother, were both found guilty of failing to disclose information.

Mulu's boyfriend Mohamed Kabashi, 25, from Brighton, pleaded guilty to both charges before the three-and-a-half-month trial, jurors have been told.

Kabashi's flatmates Shadi Abdelgadir, 25, and Omer Almagboul, 22, also from Brighton, were both cleared of the allegations.


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Marine experts believe 26 dolphins who died in Cornwall became stranded after being frightened by an underwater disturbance.

A number of theories have been forwarded to explain the deaths, one of the worst mass strandings ever in the UK.

It had been thought the striped dolphins came inland to chase fish and then became beached along the Percuil river, near Falmouth.

But Tony Woodley, spokesman for British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), said: "Very few had anything in their stomachs.

"That adds weight to the theory that they were scared ashore.

"It is another unusual factor in this extremely unusual stranding."

Attention has now switched to the Royal Navy, which was carrying out exercises in Falmouth Bay with ships and a submarine.

The Ministry of Defence said a survey vessel had been using low power, high frequency, short range equipment to map the sea bed about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Falmouth at the time.

A spokesman said: "It is considered extremely unlikely that this operation could have affected the mammals in any way."

He also confirmed that live firing exercises had been carried out off Eddystone Light, south of Plymouth, on Friday.

But the dolphins were found dead early on Monday morning, 60 nautical miles away.

A Royal Navy spokesman added: "There has been no evidence of any of our vessels' sonar ever playing a part in beaching incidents like this.

"The Royal Navy takes take its environmental responsibilities very seriously and always carry out environmental assessments before putting energy in the water."

He said no vessel in the South West had been using low frequency sonar at the time and the submarine's sonar had not been transmitting.

Alan Knight, chairman of BDMLR, said: "I have never heard of anything like this, certainly not in the UK and possibly not anywhere.

"My own personal conclusion is that there was some sort of disturbance that has caused the animals to panic."

Another theory was that a pod of 15 dolphins became stranded, issued distress calls which were picked up by others who followed the signal and also became stuck.

The Natural History Museum said its zoologists from the National Whale Stranding Scheme were working with vets from the Zoological Society of London to unravel the mystery.

It said marine strandings occurred for a number of reasons, including sickness, disorientation, natural mortality, extreme weather conditions or injury.


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