JOHN Hinckley Jr, the man who tried to assassinate former President Ronald Reagan in 1981, will be freed from all remaining restrictive conditions after four decades.
A US district judge announced the decision on Wednesday, ruling that Hinckley will be released on June 15.
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“If he hadn’t tried to kill a president he would have been released unconditionally a long time ago,” Judge Paul Friedman said last September.
Hinckley shot then-president Reagen in 1981 outside a hotel in Washington DC.
He also wounded a Secret Service agent, a police officer and then-White House press secretary James Brady, who remained paralyzed for the rest of his life.
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