"Several thousand pages of rambling paranoia" | Anders Behring Breivik trial: Six days in the company of a mass murderer - Telegraph

"Several thousand pages of rambling paranoia"

Anders Behring Breivik trial: Six days in the company of a mass murderer - Telegraph

As Anders Breivik tried to justify his killing of more than 70 people to an Oslo court, David Blair was sitting a few rows behind him. It was a chilling experience.

Anders Behring Breivik in court: As he spoke, a handful of survivors stood up and left the court. A few others wept Photo: AFP/GETTY

Later, Ms Engh’s iron self-control lapsed, for a moment, into exasperation. The killer would constantly refer to what he grandly called his “compendium” – several thousand pages of rambling paranoia, most of it cut and pasted from the internet, serving as the ideological basis for his actions. Once, he called it a “draft”, and remarked that he was still deciding if he believed in all it contained.