- I want to apologize to all like-minded for not doing more harm. I'm ashamed. I acted impulsively, was stressed and should have planned the attack better, says Philip Manshaus in the courtroom, according to NRK.

He is charged with murdering his adopted step-sister in the home, and then went to the al-Noor Islamic Center in Bærum and fired several shots.

At the mosque, he was overpowered by mosque visitors before anyone was seriously injured, but in police interrogation, the defendant has said the aim was to kill "as many Muslims as possible".

During the inaugural trial, he claimed that there was "a genocide on the European people" and called the Holocaust a "myth".

- It is an uncompromising young man who explains his conviction and it is scary to listen to, says coordinating development lawyer Olle Nohlin to NRK.

Changed the plan

The act in Norway took place on Saturday, August 10, 2019 and the defendant was arrested in connection with it.

But according to Manshaus, the plan was to carry out the attack only the following day, on Sunday, so that there would be more people in the mosque in connection with the Islamic festival Eid al-adha.

When both his father and stepmother left the house after breakfast on Saturday "a possibility" opened and he changed his plan.

Can be sentenced to custody

The 22-year-old has previously been investigated by an expert group who judged him to be accountable, which means that he can be sentenced to prison and custody.

The latter is a special sanction in Norway, which means that the sentence can be extended by five years at a time if the convicted person is still considered dangerous to society.

For example, Anders Behring Breivik, who committed the terrorist acts in Oslo and Utøya in 2011, is sentenced to custody.

The prosecutor, Attorney General Johan Øverberg, does not want to specify what punishment he will face until it is time for final plea, but during the trial he mentioned that it may be relevant to detention, reports Swedish Radio.