‘There’s someone shooting just outside. He’s coming in’

The terrified young woman’s voice is little more than a whimper.

‘he’s inside,’ she says, rapid gunfire and screaming clearly audible in the background.

‘There is shooting all the time – I’m in the toilet, I’ve locked myself in a booth,’ says Renate Taarnes during a frantic three- minute phone call to police.

‘There’s someone shooting, walking around shooting.’ Then, during a brief spell of silence, she says: ‘he’s just outside. he’s coming, he’s coming, quickly.’

Several relatives of the victims left the courtroom before the haunting tape of the call from the lavatory block of the main building on Utoya was played.

Renate, 22, escaped Breivik’s killing spree on the island but her boyfriend was among the 67 slaughtered at the summer youth camp. Prosecutors gave a detailed breakdown of the 77 minutes the gunman spent rampaging around the island as terrified youngsters tried to flee.

Breivik twice phoned police claiming he wished to surrender – and twice carried on firing, committing another 27 murders.

The massacre began after Breivik, having triggered the bomb outrage in the centre of Oslo, headed to the youth camp at Utoya – an island on a lake 25 miles from the capital.

Dressed as a policeman, he demanded a ferry take him less than half a mile across to the tiny island where 560 people were enjoying the Norwegian summer. At 17.17 he stepped ashore and four minutes later the killing began, with three people shot dead near the main building on Utoya.

Seven more were killed near the island café. At 17.26 Breivik entered the café as youngsters were desperately trying to escape the island but, as prosecutor Svein holden explained, the ‘water was a natural barrier’.

At this point, as Renate Taarnes desperately rang the police, seven people died in the Little hall of the café and six were injured. One girl was shot and survived, only to be fatally wounded later.

A minute later Breivik entered the café’s Big hall, killing five, briefly leaving to fire randomly outside before re-entering and killing another person in a corridor.

At 17.29 he left the café and moved towards Lover’s Path, where ten were mown down on the path and another five killed and ten injured on the cliff below.

Two were killed in woodland before Breivik triggered two smoke grenades and fired at vessels approaching the pier on Utoya.

At 18.00, using a mobile phone he had found, the gunman made his first call to police. Breivik listened impassively as the court played a tape of the message: ‘My name is Anders Behring Breivik, of the Norwegian anti- communistic resistance movement. I am at Utoya and I wish to surrender.’ But in the next few minutes, he killed another 22.

At 18.24, he phoned police again and offered to surrender, before killing another five. At 18.30, armed police landed on Utoya and by 18.34 Breivik’s killing spree was over.