THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The mother of Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a massacre in Norway in 2011, has died at the age of 66.
Breivik, who met with his mother Wenche at the prison where he is being held earlier this month, has said he would like to attend her funeral.
"He was allowed to say goodbye," Mrs Breivik's lawyer said. "They both knew it would be the final meeting... I spoke to him this morning. He was grieving. It was very sad news to him. "
Breivik, a 34-year-old right-wing fanatic, launched Norway's worst peacetime massacre on July 22, 2011.
He detonated a car bomb outside government offices in Oslo killing eight people and then drove to the island of Utoya where he massacred 69 in a shooting spree at the summer camp of the governing Labor Party's youth wing.
Five years before the massacre, Breivik had moved back to live with his mother and ended all social contacts. His mother never attended Breivik's 10-week trial for health reasons, but in a statement read in court she said Breivik had fabricated information. » | Associated Press in Oslo | Saturday, March 23, 2013
