The Norwegian man who confessed to gunning down scores of youth at an island camp returned to the scene of the crime on Saturday to reconstruct his actions for investigators.

Police held Anders Behring Breivik on a leash as they escorted him through the island of Utoya for a hearing about the deadly massacre that devastated Norway late last month.

The 32-year-old has admitted to detonating a bomb outside Oslo government buildings and then carrying out a shooting spree on the nearby lake island shortly after. Seventy-seven people were killed in the twin terror attacks on July 22.

Prosecutor Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby told reporters in Oslo that Breivik didn't express any regret during his eight-hour island visit.

"The suspect showed he wasn't emotionally unaffected by being back at Utoya…but he didn't show any remorse," said Kraby.

About 10 or 12 police officers escorted Breivik around Utoya as he described his July 22 shooting spree in close detail, he said.

"He has been questioned for about 50 hours about this and he has always been calm, detailed and collaborative, and that was also the case on Utoya."

Kraby said Breivik walked roughly the same route as the one he took on the lethal day of the attacks during the reconstruction.

Images published in a Norwegian newspaper show Breivik simulating the act of firing gunshots into water off the island's shoreline, where panicked teenagers tried to escape from him.

In the images, Breivik can be seen wearing a bulletproof vest and a harness connected to a leash over a red T-shirt and jeans as he led police around the island.

The entire hearing was filmed by police and will later be used in court.

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Kraby also told reporters that police received several phone calls during the terror attack that were probably from Breivik himself, but the prosecutor didn't elaborate how police reacted to the calls.

Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten has reported that Breivik offered to surrender several times and asked police to call him back but they didn't.

Other local news outlets have reported that Breivik may have filmed parts of the massacre himself. Kraby said a video camera was discussed during Saturday's reconstruction but he declined to elaborate.

Though Breivik has confessed to the twin terror attacks, he denies any criminal guilt. According to his lawyer, Breivik said he believes the massacre was necessary to save Norway and Europe from Muslims and punish politicians who have embraced multiculturalism.

If convicted on terrorism charges, Breivik faces up to 21 years in prison. However, he could be kept behind bars indefinitely if a judge determines that he poses a significant danger to the public.

With files from The Associated Press