The man who killed two people at a gay bar in Oslo during the Norwegian capital's annual Pride celebrations in 2022 was sentenced by a court on Thursday to 30 years in prison, the maximum length possible.
The Oslo District Court found the 45-year-old Iranian-born Norwegian man guilty of murder and terrorism charges.
The court also ordered him to pay compensation to the victims and bereaved totalling more than 110 million Norwegian kroner ($10.4 million).
The defendant's lawyer told public broadcaster NRK that he would advise his client to appeal the judgement.
In the early hours of June 25, 2022 the man opened fire at the London Pub, a popular LGBTQ+ bar and nightclub that was main scene of the violent rampage. Two other sites were also affected.
Two men were killed and several other people were injured, some seriously. The perpetrator was overpowered by passers-by shortly afterwards and subsequently arrested by the police.
The shooting occurred hours before Oslo's Pride parade was due to start. But police cancelled the event due to security concerns.
Norwegian intelligence agency PST classified the incident as an Islamist terrorist attack. The shooter had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group.
Norwegian media described the judgement as "historic," as it was the first case in which an offender in the Nordic country has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for serious terrorist offences.
Even the right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik only received 21 years in prison - the maximum sentence in force at the time - after his attacks in Oslo's government district and on the island of Utøya in 2012, which left a total of 77 people dead.
However, since new criminal legislation came into force in 2015, crimes classified as serious terrorist offences can be punished with 30 years in prison.