Norwegian teenager jailed for 20 years after being recruited online to carry out $AUD40,000 assassination

Key points

• A Norwegian teenager has been jailed for 20 years for conspiring to murder a target in Britain. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, agreed to carry out the killing for around AUD$40,000 in 2025.
• Police arrested him at a hotel in Huddersfield, northern England, two days after he arrived, and found two guns and ammunition. Natland was recruited online by the Swedish organised crime group Foxtrot Network, which has been linked to attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets on behalf of the Iranian regime.
• He admitted possessing the weapons but said he did not want to go through with the plan.