Colorado shooting: Gunman suspect James Holmes had been seeing psychiatrist

He is due to be charged this coming Monday. He has also claimed to other
inmates at the detention centre that he cannot remember what happened and
does not know why he is in prison.

There have been persistent questions whether the court arraignment, the
notebook, the prison claims and now the revelations about the psychiatry
sessions are part of an elaborate plan to prepare the ground for an insanity
defence.

Police have said that he planned the attack meticulously, ordering ammunition
and paramilitary supplies over the internet and buying four weapons legally
at gun-stores in the Denver area over two months.

He also rigged his apartment with potentially lethal explosive devices that
investigators believe were intended to kill police officers when they
arrived to search his home.

In another possible indication that he had been carefully planning the
murderous rampage, he set up an entry on a sex-dating website early this
month with the message: “Will you visit me in prison?”

Nonetheless, the revelation that he visited a psychiatrist with a specialism
in schizophrenia raises questions about whether the University of Colorado
may have missed signs of trouble.

The university established a team designed to identify students who might be
suicidal or represent a danger to others in the wake of the 2007 massacre
that claimed 33 lives at Virginia Tech.

It is not known at this stage whether Holmes had come to the attention of that
team. Don Elliman, the university chancellor, said that he believes “we did
everything we should have done in this case”.

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