VIENNA: Controversial British historian David Irving was today looking forward to freedom after winning his appeal over sentence for Holocaust denial charges.
Irving is to be deported back to Britain after being released on probation from an Austrian prison today.
Holocaust campaigners and the Jewish community have reacted with concern following the court's decision, with Labour peer Lord Foulkes describing it as "outrageous".
Irving said he had spent an "awful" 400 days in solitary after being jailed for denying the Holocaust.
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