Johannes Kongsnes Natland was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a London court Friday for a murder plot linked to Iran.

The 19-year-old was arrested in March 2025 in Britain, where he had arrived to find and kill his intended target for 25,000 euros. The troubled teen, who admitted to a daily drug habit, was recruited by another teenager, a 17-year-old who went by the moniker “Generalen” and who is serving a 14-year sentence for his involvement in the plot.

Both teenagers were serving the Foxtrot network, an organized crime network that is backed by Iran and that targets Jews and Israelis.

Shortly after he turned 18, Natland flew to Manchester Airport, where he was guided by a messaging app to a stash of cash, firearms, and a stolen car. In the meantime, Norwegian police arrested the teen who recruited him and discovered the plot in his phone messages. Police in England raced to stop the would-be hit man before he found his intended target, who remains unidentified.

Natland admitted to possessing the firearms and to the plot but said that he did not want to follow through.

Nevertheless, the judge in the case, Bobbie Cheema-Grubb, said he had “numerous opportunities to extricate” himself.

“You agreed to be the enforcer and pursued it, despite numerous opportunities to extricate yourself,” she said at his sentencing hearing in Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London.

“Although the fact that no one was shot dead or physically harmed is important, I am sure had the intervention of the police not prevented the plan from proceeding, you would have done what you had agreed to,” she added.

A 16-year-old who participated in the plot is awaiting trial in Norway.

Last year, the U.K. imposed sanctions on the Foxtrot Network “due to their involvement in violence against Jewish and Israeli targets in Europe on behalf of the Iranian regime.”