A jury convicted Lee Boyd Malvo of capital murder in the Washington-area sniper attacks today, rejecting claims that the teenager was brainwashed by John Allen Muhammad into taking part in the three-week reign of terror that left 10 people dead.

The jury in the Washington sniper murder trial of Lee Malvo was due to consider its verdict today, after hearing closing arguments from both sides in the case.

Lee Boyd Malvo was legally insane during last year’s sniper spree because of intense indoctrination by sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad, a defence psychiatrist testified at Malvo’s trial in Chesapeake, Virginia.

A US jury recommended yesterday that John Allen Muhammad should be executed for masterminding the deadly sniper attacks that terrorised the Washington area for three weeks last autumn.

A US jury recommended today that John Allen Muhammad should be executed for masterminding the deadly sniper attacks that terrorised the Washington area for three weeks last autumn.

A cocky Lee Malvo laughed repeatedly during a police interrogation as he recounted some of last year’s Washington sniper attacks, saying of one victim, ”He was hit good. Dead immediately”, a detective told the murder trial.

“I INTENDED to kill them all.”

In a chilling audio tape played for the jury, a soft-spoken Lee Malvo told police he pulled the trigger in all of the sniper attacks that terrified the Washington area.

Washington sniper John Muhammad was waiting today to hear if he would face the death penalty after being convicted of using a high-powered rifle, a battered car and a teenage sidekick to murder and terrorise people.

John Allen Muhammad faces the death penalty after a jury today decided he was one of the Washington area snipers.

JURORS wept yesterday as they listened to a recording of Linda Franklin’s husband wailing and sobbing as he made the emergency call reporting his wife’s sniper shooting.

Lawyers for Washington sniper suspect Lee Malvo are to mount an insanity defence at his murder trial, arguing that the teenager was a victim of “indoctrination” by his older co-defendant John Muhammad.

One of the two suspects in last year's Washington area sniper shootings told a prison guard that he shot a teenage boy to anger the police chief heading the investigation, the guard has told a court.

Teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo implicated his alleged accomplice as an equal partner in their shooting spree, with John Allen Muhammad acting as a spotter and calling out shots, prosecutors said.

A US grand jury has indicted 17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo on two counts of capital murder in last year’s sniper shootings, setting the stage for a death penalty trial.

A judge has said 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo can be tried as an adult, making him eligible for the death penalty.

US PROSECUTORS looking to bring a death penalty case against 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo said fingerprints on the murder weapon and other evidence link him to three slayings and a fourth attack that left a man critically wounded.

Prosecutors seeking a death penalty case against 17-year-old sniper suspect John Lee Malvo said fingerprints on the murder weapon and other evidence linked him to three of the killings and a fourth attack that critically wounded a man.

A JUDGE yesterday denied a request from broadcasters to televise the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad, saying such coverage could compromise Muhammad’s right to a fair trial.

JOHN LEE MALVO, the 17-year-old accused of a series of sniper attacks that terrorised the Washington DC suburbs, has admitted during a seven-hour interrogation that he carried out some of the killings, it was reported yesterday.

John Lee Malvo, the 17-year-old accused of a series of sniper attacks in the US has admitted during a seven-hour interrogation that he carried out some of the killings according to reports.

A prosecutor says the only fingerprints found on the rifle used in the Washington sniper attacks belonged to teenage suspect John Lee Malvo.

Two men have been charged in the rash of recent sniper shootings in the US as authorities on the West Coast said they were also suspects in the killing of a woman last winter and a shooting at a synagogue.

SNIPER suspect John Allen Muhammad was indicted yesterday on capital murder and five other charges in two shootings in Virginia.

Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad was indicted today on capital murder and five other charges in two shootings in Virginia.

The 17-year-old suspect in the Washington sniper murders may have fired the shot that killed an FBI analyst, it emerged today, raising the possibility that the death penalty could be brought against both suspects.

Authorities in the US have said they believe the Washington-area sniper might be trying to communicate with them through a message left at the scene of the latest shooting in Virginia.

A 37-year-old man was fighting for his life today after being shot in what is feared to be the 12th attack by the Washington serial sniper.

A shooting at a restaurant in Virginia, USA, in which a 37-year-old man was injured, has attracted a swarm of law enforcement officers, including a task force investigating the string of sniper shootings in the Washington DC area.

A man who claimed to have seen the Washington serial sniper before his latest shooting was today charged with giving false information to police.

THE FBI plans to question al-Qaida prisoners at Guantanamo Bay about the sniper terrorising Washington DC, it was reported yesterday.

The hunt for the serial sniper stalking Washington suffered a setback today when a witness to the latest attack was labelled “not credible” by police.

The FBI plans to question al-Qaida prisoners at Guantanamo Bay about the sniper terrorising Washington DC, it was reported today.

FOR the first time since the Washington-area sniper slayings began, more than one witness saw a man fire and flee in a white van, but police said yesterday that none of the witnesses got a good enough look to yield a sketch.

The serial sniper stalking Washington used a Kalashnikov to kill his latest victim, a witness said today.

An FBI terrorism analyst has been identified as the ninth person killed by the Washington-area sniper, shot in the head in an attack investigators say has yielded the most detailed clues yet.

BALLISTIC evidence conclusively links the death of a woman shot in the head in a suburban parking lot with eight other killings by the Washington-area sniper, authorities said yesterday.