Norwegian teenager sentenced to 20 years in prison over UK murder plot

A Norwegian teenager, Johannes Kongsnes Natland, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a plot to carry out an assassination in the UK. Natland, 19, was arrested in March 2025 at a hotel in northern England with a semi-automatic pistol, a revolver, and 19 bullets under his bed. The Metropolitan Police found evidence that he had been instructed on how to collect the weapons and had received messages on social media asking him to carry out the shooting.

The teenager claimed he had no intention of following through with the plan, but Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb emphasized that he had agreed to be the enforcer and would have carried out the assassination had it not been for the intervention of the police. Natland was allegedly controlled by someone known as Agent 47, a reference to the Hitman video game series, and was operating under orders from the Foxtrot Network, an international criminal gang based in Sweden involved in arms trafficking and linked to shootings and contract killings in Northern Europe.

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