DHAKA: John Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan, is to be released from a psychiatric hospital next month after 35 years.

Reagan and three others were injured in the shooting outside a hotel in Washington in March 1981.

Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity but was sent for treatment to a Washington hospital.

He has already been spending 17 days a month at his mother’s home in Virginia under strict conditions, reports the BBC.

BDST: 2037 HRS, JUL 27, 2016
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