"The court has now adjourned for the day after terrible, harrowing testimony from Breivik
in which he gave a detailed, graphic account of his killing spree on Utøya, which left 69 people dead.
Before Breivik began his account of what happened on Utoya, he warned the courtroom that people should consider leaving because much of what he was about to say was "horrendous". He wasn't wrong. In 90 minutes of uninterrupted testimony, the 33-year-old described the island massacre from the moment he tricked his way on to the ferry over, dressed as a policeman, to when he was finally arrested.
Few people left the courtroom as he gave evidence, but there were tears in the eyes of many listening to his account. Lawyers bit their lips. The parents of some of the children killed held each other tight. Experienced journalists said they were finding it difficult to keep it together and that they had never heard anything as terrible. Outside, there were reports that many Norwegians had come spontaneously down to the court building to leave flowers.
The 33-year-old described shooting teenagers who were paralysed with fear, taking shots at others "playing dead" on the floor when he could tell they were still alive. With dozens already dead, he stalked the island in search of "the sort of places I would hide" and shot children he spotted trying to make themselves invisible, pressing themselves up against a cliff.
Breivik says that after he shot some more people he thought of taking his own life. Breivik: "And I thought, do I really want to survive this? I will be the most hated man in Norway. And I looked over and saw my Glock...and I thought about shooting myself in the head."
Says he remembered his compendium and the plan to face judicial process.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/20/anders-behring-breivik-trial-live
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