Washington sniper 'legally insane'

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.

“Lee was unable to distinguish between right and wrong and was unable to resist the impulse” to commit the killings, said Neil Blumberg, who examined Malvo 20 times in jail. “From day one, I thought he met the legal criteria for insanity.”