Breivik says he would have repeated attack

The Norwegian gunman who massacred 77 people said in court yesterday that he would do the same thing again.

Anders Behring Breivik, aged 33, has pleaded not guilty and said he was defending his country by setting off a car bomb that killed eight people at government headquarters in Oslo last July, then shooting another 69 people at a youth summer camp organised by the ruling Labour Party, in attacks he called “sophisticated and spectacular”.

Taking the stand at his trial for the first time, Breivik read from a statement for an hour, ignoring pleas from the judge to stop and sparking criticism from victims he was being allowed to use the trial for violent propaganda.