Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik trial: day four live

8.10am Breivik began by saying he wanted to challenge one of the
psychiatric reports.

8.01am Following the request from the defence, Breivik did not
do the far-right salute as he entered court.

8.00am The Judge has just arrived and Breivik’s next day of questioning
is about to begin.

7.51am Ali Esbati, a survivor of the July 22 attacks, said last
night Breivik appeared to be getting “progressively frustrated
with the questions” on the third day of his trial.

7.40am We are around 20 minutes from the start of day four of the
trial. Breivik has arrived at court but not yet been led into the
courtroom.

Defence lawyers have asked him to stop doing a far-right fist salute as he
enters, which he has done every morning so far.

7.34am The prosecution have outlined what they intend to question Breivik
about today:

7.19am Breivik insisted yesterday he attended a meeting in London in
2002 in which his violent right-wing group, the so-called “Knights Templar,”
was founded. It was here, he claims, that he met his English mentor “Richard”.

Three days after the Norway attacks, the Daily
Telegraph identified and tracked down a British man calling himself Paul Ray
,
who admitted that he could have been the mentor Breivik was talking about,
although he denied ever meeting him.

Our Investigations Correspondent Duncan
Gardham
writes:

QuoteRay, who blogged under the name “Lionheart,” wrote in 2007: “God will
revive the ancient order of the Knights Templar and count me worthy to die
amongst them in service of my God in protection of the Christian and Jewish
world.”

He described himself as one of the “founding fathers” of the right-wing
English Defence League, which he later abandoned – similarly Breivik wrote:
“I wonder sometimes if one of the EDL founders was one of the co-founders of
[the Knights Templar], I guess I’ll never know for sure.”

7.17am Our chief foreign correspondent David Blair, who has been
in Oslo all week following events, has written this
piece summing up the major developments
from yesterday’s hearing.


Anders Behring Breivik’s massacre in Norway was partly inspired by an “English
mentor” who ranked among the most “brilliant political and
military tacticians” in Europe, the killer declared yesterday.

During a meeting with this founding member of the “Knights Templar”
in London, Breivik scribbled 50 pages of notes on how they would, together, “seize
power in Western Europe”.

The third day of Breivik’s trial in Oslo heard him set out the ideological
roots of the carnage he inflicted on 22 July last year, claiming 77 lives.
But the flustered and perplexed killer wilted under cross-examination,
eventually declaring that he wanted either freedom or the death penalty,
because that was the only sentence he could “respect”.

The turning point in Breivik’s transformation into a “militant
nationalist” with a “crusader identity” was a meeting with
three men in London a decade ago. “I did not fully comprehend at the
time how privileged I was to be in the company of some of the most brilliant
political and military tacticians of Europe,” he wrote in his
manifesto. “Some of us were unfamiliar with eachother beforehand, so I
guess we all took a high risk meeting face to face.”

7.15am Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of day four of the
trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the far-Right extremist who
confessed to killing 77 people in Norway
on July 22. The day is due to start at 7am GMT (8am BST, 9am Norway). For a
reminder of those horrific events, and the aftermath the following week, our
live coverage from July is below. You can also see our coverage of day one
of the trial as it happened here,
day two here
and day three here.

Norway shootings: July 29 as it happened

Norway shootings: July 28 as it happened

Norway shootings: July 27 as it happened

Norway shootings: July 26 as it happened

Norway shootings: July 25 as it happened

Norway shootings: July 24 as it happened

Norway terrorist attacks: July 23 as it happened

Oslo explosion: July 22 as it happened

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