A two-person psychiatric panel has found that Behring Breivik was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and has done so for several years.
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The panel handed in its report today and due to the enormous interest in its work, some of the findings were presented in a press conference. The report will now be subjected to a quality review by the psychiatric group of the Board of Forensic Medicine.
Norway massacre: Breivik declared insane
Breivik, 32, is due to stand trial on 16 April for a hearing scheduled to last around 10 weeks.
It is unclear if the conclusions of the report - if approved by the panel - will prevent the trial from going ahead in its current form.
It will almost certainly mean that Breivik is detained into psychiatric care rather than receiving a lengthy jail term.
Before the report was made public, a lawyer for the victims said it did not matter what the conclusion was as long as Breivik was not allowed to go free.
"What will happen in the case, no matter what the conclusion, is that he (Breivik) will of course be incarcerated," John Christian Elden said.
[Mr. Elden is a lawyer for several of the victims.]
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