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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Priya Bharadia

Norwegian teenager guilty of travelling to UK to carry out contract killing

Johannes Kongsnes Natland: he is 19 with light brown, straight hair worn in a fringe over his forehead.
Johannes Kongsnes Natland had agreed to shoot an unidentified victim for €25,000 but was arrested in Huddersfield by armed police. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA

A Norwegian teenager has been found guilty of travelling to England to carry out a killing ordered by an international crime gang linked to Iran.

Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 19, from Stavanger, Norway, agreed to shoot an unknown person for €25,000 (£21,500) in March last year. Two days after he arrived in the UK armed police arrested him in a hotel room in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, seizing two guns and ammunition.

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