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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b." During Monday's interview, Muhammad seemed paranoid, the psychiatrist wrote.

He claimed that his attorneys were withholding information that was important to his defense and told her: "It was never my intention to be represented by an attorney." Lewis said the sniper told her that he is innocent and thinks "his arrest was the result of an elaborate scheme to frame him for the murders." She wrote that Muhammad told her he also believes accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo was "fed information by the police and forced to make a false confession." Muhammad has refused to assist his attorneys, public defenders Paul DeWolfe and Brian D.

Shefferman, saying that he can't share his "secret defense strategy" with his attorneys because "they cannot be trusted," Lewis wrote.

At Wednesday's hearing, Montgomery Circuit Judge James L.

Ryan must decide on Muhammad's competency before ruling on whether to allow Muhammad to represent himself.

Muhammad and Malvo are accused of murdering 10 people and wounding three during the three-week period in October, and have been tied to killings in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Washington state.

Muhammad was convicted and sentenced to death in for a sniper shooting in Manassas, Va.

Malvo also was convicted in Virginia and sentenced to life in prison.

Malvo is scheduled to go on trial in Montgomery County in the fall for the same six murders.

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According to psychiatric nurse Sue Ward, growing vegetables helps patients use every-day skills, enjoy the outdoors and reintegrate into society.

Story continues ADVERTISEMENT She said: "It offers people hope for the future by allowing them to do things that the rest of the general public do.

"Although we don't use it much in the winter, in the summer we might go down there as often as two or three times a week, have a cup of tea and do some gardening." Currently staff at the hospital have helped out by lending tools of their own, so work in the allotment can continue during a vital time of the gardening year.

But with resources limited, the hospital has put out a plea to members of the public thinking of investing in new equipment for the summer months to donate their old tools.

Psychiatric nurse Eddie Smith added: "People just fail to appreciate that these therapeutic sessions are very beneficial to our patients." Mr Smith asked for people with spare gloves, spades, forks, seeds, secateurs, watering cans or a petrol mower top contact them on 01926 313126.

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