Norwegian Teenage Hitman Jailed for 20 Years Over UK Murder Plot
Prosecutors said the Foxtrot Network paid young recruits to carry out violence as a service, and police arrested Natland with two guns and ammunition.
- On Friday, 19-year-old Johannes Natland was sentenced to 20 years detention at Woolwich Crown Court after being found guilty of conspiracy to murder while plotting a "hit" on British soil.
- Natland was recruited in Norway by a 17-year-old known as Generalen to work for the Swedish Foxtrot, an Iran-backed organized crime group known for deploying children as young as 13 in violent crimes.
- Armed police arrested Natland at a Huddersfield hotel in March 2025, seizing two guns, 12 bullets, and £2,000 in cash after he bragged to his girlfriend about having the "bangs in the bag."
- Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb sentenced the teen, noting messages showed "not only participation but at points excitement," though Paul Hynes argued Natland was a "young, popular, successful student" before abusing drugs.
- Norwegian police have charged three more individuals in connection to the case, while Counter Terrorism Policing Commander Helen Flanagan credited the "exceptional work" of police in thwarting the assassination plot.
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A 19-year-old Norwegian man, Johannes Kongsnes Natland, who was recruited as a hitman by an Iranian-backed criminal gang, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a British court on Friday. He arrived in Britain last March to shoot an unnamed person for 25,000 euros (608,000 crowns).
A 19-year-old Norwegian was sentenced this Friday by a British court to 20 years' imprisonment for travelling to the United Kingdom to commit murder...
Norwegian teenager Johannes Kongsnes Natland travelled to the UK to carry out a murder on behalf of an international criminal organisation linked to Iran. He was arrested by police before he could carry out the plan. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempted murder.
Johannes Kongsnes Natland was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the murder was ordered by the Swedish crime organization Foxtrot.
A youth from Norway wants to kill for money in the UK. At the last second the police arrest him - now the verdict is against him. Behind the feigned contract murder is a notorious criminal network.
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