When it comes to irresponsible promotions, giving away a free gun with every purchase of a new car has to take the biscuit. I suppose it is quite enterprising. Taking advantage of the feeling of desperation that the collapse of the US economy is putting on both sellers and consumers alike.

What other than an absence of conscience can explain how a father could imprison his 18-year-old daughter in his cellar/dungeon for 24 years?

Fritzl has issued a frank confession from his prison cell, in which he has said he was driven by an “addiction” which “got out of control”.