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A file image issued by Norwegian police of confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik (AP Photo/Norwegian Police via Scanpix Norway, File

Norway killer "insane", was "psychotic" during 22 July attacks

The findings of a psychiatric evaluation ordered in Oslo court show that he is not mentally fit to be sentenced to prison.

CONFESSED MASS KILLER Anders Behring Breivik was insane when he killed 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway, and should be sent to a psychiatric ward instead of prison, prosecutors said today.

A psychiatric evaluation ordered by an Oslo court found that Breivik was “psychotic” during the July 22 attacks, which means he’s not mentally fit to be sentenced to prison, prosecutors told reporters.

The conclusions, which will be reviewed by a panel of forensic psychiatrists, contrasted with comments made by the head of that board after the attacks.

Dr Tarjei Rygnestad at the time told who told The Associated Press that it was unlikely that Breivik would be declared legally insane because the attacks were so carefully planned and executed.

“The conclusions of the forensic experts is that Anders Behring Breivik was insane,” prosecutor Svein Holden said, adding Breivik was in a state of psychosis during the attacks.

In their report, the experts describe a man “who finds himself in his own delusional universe, where all his thoughts and acts are governed by these delusions,” Holden said.

They conclude that Anders Behring Breivik during a long period of time has developed the mental disorder of paranoid schizophrenia, which has changed him and made him into the person he is today.

In Norway, an insanity defence requires that a defendant be in a state of psychosis while committing the crime with which he or she is charged.

That means the defendant has lost contact with reality to the point that he’s no longer in control of his own actions.

The 243-page report will be reviewed by a panel from the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine, which could ask for additional information and add its own opinions.

On Tuesday, Rygnestad, who heads that board said that his comments in July were based on “secondary information” and that a person’s mental state can only be determined through in-depth analysis. He said he had not read the full report yet.

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    Oct 11th 2018, 6:40 PM

    But will anything actually happen Callinan now?

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    Oct 11th 2018, 6:50 PM

    @Paul Corcoran: no he probably has to much dirt on those in power

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    Oct 11th 2018, 6:50 PM

    @Paul Corcoran: after he apologizes they will ask him to pay for the car park tickets he owes that took place in the dark of night !

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    Oct 11th 2018, 7:04 PM

    Surely callinan will be brought to the courts,this nearly destroyed sgt mc cabe and his family.

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    Oct 11th 2018, 8:16 PM

    Very well written article .. it was a great read

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    Oct 11th 2018, 9:26 PM

    @Mari: yes excellent summary

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    Oct 11th 2018, 7:20 PM

    I’d like to see more light thrown in Terry Prone’s role in all this…

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    Oct 11th 2018, 7:08 PM

    An organisation so corrupt they consider it normal.

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    Oct 11th 2018, 7:25 PM

    just back from Cold war tour of Berlin. visited Stazi prisons. sick to the stomach that this did happen here too.

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    Oct 11th 2018, 10:20 PM

    No obviously nobody will be held to account that’s not the way it works, it’s the ah sure that’s grand mentality and until that changes nothing else ever will

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    Oct 11th 2018, 9:26 PM

    It looks like ‘the lunatics have taken over the asylum’ a long time ago here in ireland. as the song says.

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    Oct 12th 2018, 10:34 AM

    I don’t understand The Journal’s writing standards, e.g,.: ‘…and the usual ‘watch out huns’ Christmas edition wasn’t going to cut it..’. What is this?!?

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    Nov 14th 2018, 8:17 AM

    Will Callinan be charged with anything? Perjury, Fraud, Frame-up, Collusion etc. Or does he just sail off into the sunset?
    Please say it isn’t so.

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