Nail-bomber David Copeland said he felt no sorrow for his attacks on race and gay targets which killed three and left scores seriously injured, an Old Bailey jury heard yesterday.
Copeland, whose heroes were Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein and US serial killer Henry Lee, told police he had no feelings.
He said he was just like a robot at the time and had to do it, Nigel Sweeney QC, prosecuting, told the jury.
Copeland said he had done it because he wanted to be famous and said: "If no one remembers who you were, you never existed."
Copeland was caught the day after three friends died and 70 people were injured in the mainly gay Admiral Duncan pub in Soho, central London, on April 30th last year.
Copeland allegedly told police he hated homosexuals and although his other two targets, in Brixton and Brick Lane, were racial this attack was "personal".
Mr Sweeney said Copeland told police in an interview: "I saw the people I was going to maim and kill. I do not feel joy about it. I do not feel sad. I just did not feel anything."
Mr Sweeney read details of the deaths and injuries caused in the bombing to a hushed courtroom. Several victims sat in reserved seats at the back. Later, the first eyewitnesses started to give evidence of the three bombs which injured a total 129 people within a 13-day period in April last year and caused over £250,000 in damage.
One witness, Brixton store manager Paul Maskell, said when the bomb went off "everything seemed to go blank . . . I had a nail sticking out of my head and one in my left side. There were cuts the length of my body."
Gary Schilling (14) found he was crying after the Brixton bomb exploded. "I looked down and saw a three-inch nail sticking out of my boot," he said.
The prosecution alleges Copeland had launched his bombing campaign in London last year to ignite a race war in Britain.
His first two bombs were aimed at the black community in Brixton, south London, and the Asian community in Brick Lane. The final one was planted at the busy gay bar in Soho.
The pipe-bomb at the pub killed pregnant Ms Andrea Dykes (27) and friends Mr John Light (32) and Mr Nik Moore (31).
Ms Dykes's husband Julian was severely injured. Copeland, an engineer from Farnborough, Hampshire, at an earlier hearing admitted causing the explosions.
He has also admitted the manslaughter of the three on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but his plea was not accepted by the prosecution. He denies their murder.
The manager had been examining a suspect package Copeland left in front of the bar when it exploded. Mr Nik Moore and Ms Andrea Dykes died on the spot. After his arrest Copeland allegedly told police he felt sorry for Ms Dykes because she had a baby.
Police found Copeland at home hours after the Soho blast. Flying Squad officers knocked on his bedsit door.
"They saw the Nazi flags on the walls and the similarity between the defendant and the pictures of the Brixton bomber," Mr Sweeney said.
Copeland allegedly told the officers: "Yeah, they are all down to me. I did them on my own."
The trial was adjourned until today.