- Norwegian footballer Johannes Kongsnes Natland has been jailed for 20 years for conspiracy to murder.
- Natland, 19, agreed to assassinate an unknown target in England for €25,000 on behalf of an Iran-backed Swedish crime gang.
- Armed police arrested Natland at a hotel in Huddersfield two days after he arrived in the UK, seizing two guns and 12 live bullets.
- Court evidence revealed Natland bragged about the planned contract killing to his girlfriend, saying: “I can finally kill someone and it’s perfect as I get money to do it.”
- Sentencing Natland at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said that he would have carried out the hit had police intervention not prevented the plan.
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