Marc Dutroux case: Belgium child killer asks for release

Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux has gone before a court to ask for early release from a life jail sentence imposed for the kidnap and rape of six girls, and three murders.

Dutroux, 56, asked a special court in Brussels to be released into house arrest with electronic tagging.

He has served almost 16 years of his life term.

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Dutroux was finally convicted in 2004 of the abduction and rape of six girls, and the murder of two of them - teenagers An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks - along with the murder of suspected accomplice Bernard Weinstein.

Two other eight-year-old girls starved to death.

In August last year, Belgium's highest court allowed Dutroux's ex-wife, Michelle Martin, to be freed after serving 16 years of her 30-year sentence and transferred to a convent.

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