Those expecting Anders Behring Breivik to spend the rest of his days alone in a cramped cell will be disappointed when the far-right fanatic is sentenced on Friday for killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage last year.

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.