{"id":62849,"date":"2026-10-16T11:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/norwegian-teen-hitman-johannes-natland-detained-for-uk-murder-plot\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:03:42","slug":"norwegian-teen-hitman-johannes-natland-detained-for-uk-murder-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/norwegian-teen-hitman-johannes-natland-detained-for-uk-murder-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian teen &#8216;hitman&#8217; Johannes Natland detained for UK murder plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b>A teenager who travelled from Norway to the UK to carry out a &#8220;hit&#8221; for an organised crime group has been sentenced to 20 years detention.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johannes Natland, 19, was arrested in a hotel room in Huddersfield with two working guns and 19 rounds of live ammunition in March 2025, the Old Bailey previously heard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his retrial, a jury heard the teen was &#8220;recruited&#8221; by the Foxtrot Network, which was described as a Swedish organised crime group backed by the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Natland, who had admitted to possession of the firearms and ammunition, was unanimously found guilty of conspiracy to murder and sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cw8rzpl1ldkdo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager who travelled from Norway to the UK to carry out a &#8220;hit&#8221; for an organised crime group has been sentenced to 20 years detention. Johannes Natland, 19, was arrested in a hotel room in Huddersfield with two working guns and 19 rounds of live ammunition in March 2025, the Old Bailey previously heard. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[10011,17118,17119,880,17120,13527,4774,3132],"class_list":["post-62849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-detained","tag-hitman","tag-johannes","tag-murder","tag-natland","tag-norwegian","tag-plot","tag-teen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62851,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62849\/revisions\/62851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}