Natland grew up successful the lipid metropolis of Stavanger successful south-west Norway.
The lad of 2 journalists, and a promising young footballer, helium started taking drugs aged 13.
He told the Old Bailey that by past twelvemonth helium was taking drugs "pretty overmuch each day".
He dropped retired of school, and aft becoming paranoid that his parents were trying to termination him, helium ended up successful a psychiatric portion with drug-induced psychosis.
He said helium past spent a abbreviated play successful a "home for occupation children" wherever helium met 1 of those who aboriginal recruited him to the Foxtrot Network, a teen with the username UnknownHustler.
On 15 March 2025, UnknownHustler forwarded him a message, which was successful effect a Foxtrot online tender for business, known by constabulary arsenic VaaS.
The Foxtrot tender was blunt - "Killing successful England 270k. Have transport acceptable retired of the country. Will smuggle assassin retired of the country. The constabulary volition beryllium paid to look the different way. Nothing tin spell wrong." (270,000 Norwegian Kroner is astir £21,000.)
Natland was past added to a radical with Generalen and Agent 47. The radical sanction was Assassin EU.
The archetypal connection helium posted successful the radical was "Who is to beryllium killed?"
It is not wide that helium ever got the reply to that question close up to the infinitesimal helium was arrested with 2 guns nether his edifice country bed.
The adjacent day, 16 March, Agent 47 booked Natland's one-way aerial summons to the UK.
On 17 March, conscionable 2 days aft helium had been recruited, Natland flew from Stavanger to Manchester, utilizing an exigency passport, arsenic his mean 1 had expired.
On accomplishment astatine Manchester, helium was detained and questioned, arsenic UK Border Force officers were suspicious astir his exigency passport, and his deficiency of money, edifice booking, oregon instrumentality aerial ticket.
They refused him entry, but fto him participate temporarily anyhow arsenic the adjacent formation backmost to Stavanger was not for 3 days. The declaration deed was inactive on.
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