THE Russian supermarket worker found guilty of murdering 48 people told his trial on today he felt like God as he decided if his victims should live or die.
"Everything I said in court was absolutely true. I took the most valuable thing, human life," Alexander Pichushkin told the court after the judge invited him to make a final statement before he is sentenced next week.
"I didn't take anything else of value from them. Money, jewellery, I didn't need it. I felt like God."
A jury found Pichushkin guilty on Wednesday on 48 counts of murder and three of attempted murder.
In court today, he said he was responsible for killing a total of 63 people.
Police are investigating his claim about the additional murders.
Russian media have dubbed 33-year-old the "chessboard killer" because he told detectives he hoped to put a coin on every space of a 64-square chess board for each of his victims.
"I have spent some 500 days in jail and all that time a lot of people have been deciding my fate," he said from a glass cage on one side of the courtroom.
"Cops, lawyers, experts, witness. I alone decided the fate of 63 people. I was the judge, jury and prosecutor. I decided who would live and who would die. I did all of your functions by myself."
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