Norwegian Teen Sentenced to 20 Years for UK Murder Plot

Johannes Kongsnes Natland, a 19-year-old from Norway, was sentenced to 20 years in detention on October 16 after a jury convicted him of conspiring to carry out a killing in Britain. The intended target was never identified, and investigators found no evidence of a direct Iranian link to this specific plot, a counterterrorism commander said. Natland was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court after a retrial. He admitted possessing firearms and ammunition but denied intending to carry out the killing. A jury found him guilty of conspiracy to murder in July 2026, following an earlier trial that ended without a verdict. Police arrested him at a hotel in Huddersfield on March 19, 2025, two days after he arrived in Britain from Norway. Officers seized a semiautomatic pistol, a revolver and ammunition. The plot was disrupted before anyone was injured. Prosecutors said Natland had been recruited by a teenager known as Generalen to work for the Foxtrot Network, a Swedish organized crime group. The group has been sanctioned by the United Kingdom and the United States over violence against Jewish and Israeli targets in Europe, which authorities have attributed to the network’s alleged...