Breivik is a cowardly little man, declares survivor aged 15

Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is a “cowardly little man,” one of his teenage victims said yesterday, after showing a court the scars left by his bullets.

Ylva Helene Schwenke, 15, was shot her in the neck and then several more times as she lay bleeding on the floor. “He is a cowardly little man, really,” she said. “He shoots a 14-year-old girl from behind then shoots me twice in the leg; that’s the most cowardly thing I’ve ever heard.”

Earlier, showing the court the scars that cover much of her body, she said: “I have no problem showing my scars, I look at them as a symbol of victory. We have to pay a price for democracy but we won.”

Breivik killed 77 people on 22 July last year, first detonating a car bomb in Oslo killing eight people, then gunning down 69 more, mostly teenagers, at a ruling Labour Party summer camp on Utoeya island.

He denies criminal guilt, saying his actions were political.