A bored Norwegian teen who said he grew up with "nothing to do" ended up flying to England to allegedly carry out a mob hit for $28,000, prosecutors say. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, convicted of conspiracy to murder by a London jury on Monday, was arrested by counterterrorism officers in a West Yorkshire hotel last March, where police say they found two handguns, ammunition, cash, and work gloves, the Telegraph reports. Investigators say the one-time standout student and aspiring footballer was hired via Snapchat by "Generalen," a Norwegian schoolboy turned fixer for Foxtrot, a Sweden-based crime network whose leader operates from Iran.
Foxtrot, sanctioned by the US and UK for attacks on Jewish targets in Europe, is accused of outsourcing contract killings to teenagers—a model police call "violence as a service." Norwegian officers had just arrested "Generalen," then 16, for allegedly arranging multiple gangland executions in Sweden and a planned stabbing of a police chief's son, when messages on his phone tipped them off to Natland's UK mission. British authorities still don't know who Natland's intended victim was.
Natland told the court he traveled out of fear of the gang and planned to shoot himself in the foot to avoid killing anyone, per the Guardian. Prosecutors countered that he had texted his girlfriend, saying, "It will be a bit cool to kill someone." He allegedly picked up cash, weapons, and a stolen vehicle in the hours before his arrest. He previously admitted firearms and ammunition charges and will be sentenced in October. "Generalen" is now serving a 14-year prison sentence in Norway.
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