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A 60-year-old man who robbed a bank while wearing women's clothes and his mother's wig claimed he had been driven "culturally insane" by racism.

But Blaine Gamble's story cut little ice with the judge who described his excuse as "baloney" and sentenced him to spend 13 years in jail.

Gamble said his madness had been brought on by years of intolerance and by the fact that he once saw a picture of a black child being beaten to death by a white mob.

But assistant US attorney Shaun Sweeney said at the sentencing hearing: "Its a bunch of baloney."

Despite describing the judge as an enlightened man and spending 30 minutes quoting from the Koran, Gamble was jailed by the Pittsburgh court.

The court had been told that Gamble dressed in his mum's wig, hospital shoes and dress, leaned on a walking stick and shuffled into the bank carrying a Tec-22 semiautomatic handgun.

After he pistol-whipped a clerk he left the stick behind and police managed traced his palm print, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.