Self-confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Brevik salutes as he arrives in court to hear the verdict in his trial.<br/> <br />As Breivik wanted, the court handedt him a 21-year maximum jail term, dismissing the prosecution's request for an insanity ruling, which would have kept him under lock and key indefinitely in a medical facility.<br/> <br />In the worst attack in the Nordic nation since World War II, Breivik blew up Oslo government headquarters with a fertiliser bomb, killing eight, before gunning down 69 others at the ruling Labor Party's summer youth camp last year.<br/> <br />Breivik had rejected prosecutors' arguments that he was insane, claiming that the violence was a lucid political statement rather than an act of lunacy.<br/> <br />Officials can prevent Breivik's release indefinitely and are expected to do so if the anti-Muslim right-winger still poses a threat.<br/> <br />Criminal guilt was never an issue as Breivik acknowledged and described in horrific detail his murders in the ten-week trial.
