Man Who Shot at Rare Drawing Ruled Insane
A man who blasted a sawed-off shotgun at a Leonardo da Vinci drawing last July was ordered by a London court Thursday to remain in a prison for the criminally insane.
Robert Cambridge, 37, pleaded guilty in November to firing a shotgun in London’s National Gallery at the 500-year-old black chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child with St. Anne and John the Baptist.
A bulletproof casing stopped the pellets, but glass splinters caused hundreds of tiny tears in the work, valued at $9 million. Damage was estimated at $36,000.
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