Breivik 'insane' during Norway massacre

Mass killer Anders Breivik will be sent to a psychiatric hospital and not prison after doctors decided he was insane when he murdered 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway.

Mass killer Anders Breivik will be sent to a psychiatric hospital and not prison after doctors decided he was insane when he murdered 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway.

An evaluation ordered by an Oslo court found that Breivik was “psychotic” during the July 22 attacks – the country’s worst peacetime massacre – which means he is not mentally fit to be sentenced to prison, prosecutors said.

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