A chapter of a terror case that has haunted Norway for 13 months will end today as confessed mass killer Anders Breivik receives his judgment for attacks that left 77 people dead and more than 200 injured.

Anders Behring Breivik’s defence lawyers say the confessed mass killer will not appeal if he is sentenced to prison but he will challenge any ruling that declares him insane.

The bomb attack by Norwegian Anders Breivik could have been prevented and his gun massacre stopped earlier, according to an official report into the tragedy.

Even if found criminally insane, mass killer Anders Breivik is likely to remain inside the walls of the prison where he has been held since his bomb and gun attacks in July.

The trial of Anders Breivik has ended with the confessed mass killer demanding to be set free and vowing that history would exonerate him for a bomb-and-gun rampage that killed 77 people.

Confessed mass killer Anders Breivik is not a delusional madman but a political militant motivated by an extreme right-wing ideology, his lawyers told a court today.

The defence has started its closing arguments in the 10-week trial of confessed Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik.

Prosecutors today asked a court to send confessed mass killer Anders Breivik to a mental institution instead of prison for his massacre of 77 people in a gun and shooting rampage.

A handful of Norwegian right-wing extremists testified today in Anders Breivik's defence, backing his ideological claims that Norway is "at war" with Islam.

Anders Breivik took a cocktail of stimulants before launching his fatal gun and bomb attacks in Norway last year, a court has been told today.

Norwegian police have said they are confident that confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik acted on his own in terror attacks last year that killed 77 people and found no evidence that he belonged to a Europe-wide anti-Muslim network.

A man has set himself on fire outside the Oslo court where right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is being tried for his bombing and shooting massacre.

The trial of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik has been interrupted by a spectator who shouted “Go to hell” and threw a shoe at him.

A Norwegian court has heard the autopsy reports of the first victims of a youth camp massacre that left 69 people dead on Utoya island.

People have held public sing-songs in cities across Norway today in a message of defiance to Anders Behring Breivik.

Mass killer Anders Breivik has dismissed a psychiatric report that declared him insane as based on “evil fabrications” meant to portray him as irrational and unintelligent.

A police officer has described the chaos that reigned in Oslo after the bomb planted by Anders Breivik exploded on July 22 last year.

A security guard in the Norwegian government building struck by a car bomb that killed eight people, detonated by mass killer Anders Breivik, told a court today he had just put a security camera on the number plate when it exploded.

Desperate to prove he is not insane, mass killer Anders Breivik today claimed questions about his mental health were part of a racist plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim ideology.

The right-wing extremist who confessed to a massacre of 77 people in Norway compared the pain he caused the families of his victims to his own situation today.

Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik has shocked an Oslo courtroom with his grisly descriptions of a massacre carried out on an island youth camp.

Anders Behring Breivik acquired the knowledge to carry out a bomb and shooting rampage on the internet, he told a Norwegian court today.

Confessed mass killer Anders Breivik says his original plans for a terror attack was for three bombings, possibly including the Norwegian royal palace.

Mass killer Anders Breivik said today he thought he had only a slim chance of escaping Norway’s capital alive after setting off a bomb in the government district on July 22.

Mass killer Anders Breivik’s claims of belonging to a secret anti-Muslim militia appeared to crack today after he admitted it was “not an organisation in a conventional sense.”

Prosecutors pressed mass killer Anders Breivik for details about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong to on the third day of his trial for the massacre of 77 people.

Anders Breivik tried to defend his massacre of 77 people today, insisting he would do it again and calling his rampage the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant since the Second World War.

Anders Breivik defended his massacre of 77 people today and boasted the bomb-and-shooting rampage was the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant since the Second World War.

A lay judge in the trial of confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was dismissed today for commenting online that the anti-Muslim extremist deserves the death penalty.

The right-wing fanatic accused of murdering 77 people during a devastating bomb and gun attack in Norway last summer is expected to take the stand on the second day of his trial.

Right-wing fanatic Anders Breivik has shed tears at his trial in Oslo - but not for remorse over his actions in killing 77 people.

The right-wing fanatic responsible for the bomb-and-shooting massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has admitted to the “acts” in court but pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, saying he was acting in self-defence.

The right-wing fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb and shooting massacre in Norway went on trial today, defiantly rejecting the authority of the court.

The terror trial against an anti-Muslim fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in Norway starts today amid fears that he will use the proceedings to showcase his radical views.