Norway mass killer to tell court he 'regrets not going further'

Anders Behring Breivik, the far-Right extremist who killed 77 people in Norway last summer, will tell a court that he regrets "not going further", after a new psychiatric examination ruled that he is not criminally insane.

The report, which contradicts an earlier examination, was issued days before he goes on trial in Oslo. The report's conclusion means that Breivik is considered criminally responsible at the time of the crime, the court said in a statement.

Speaking after the report was made public, Geir Lippestad, Breivik's lawyer, said of the trial, "This will be extremely difficult, an enormous challenge to listen to his explanations. He will not only defend [his actions] but will also lament, I think, not going further." Psychiatrists were called to make a new assessment after victims' families protested against the first examination, which found Breivik suffered paranoid schizophrenia.

The 33-year-old has confessed to killing eight in Oslo with a bomb planted next to government buildings, before travelling to the nearby island of Utoya and shooting dead 69 people at a political youth camp on July 22 last year.

He rejects the charge of terrorism, arguing that his acts are part of a war against militant Islam. The new report does not necessarily overrule the first one, and the final decision on whether Breivik should go to jail or a mental institution will be decided by judges.