Norwegian lawyers for a 19-year-old from Stavanger who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in England are still hoping he can serve his term back in Norway. He was found guilty of planning to murder an unknown victim for the Swedish criminal network known as Foxtrot.
A police raid foiled the young man’s murder plans, but a British judge found him guilty by intention and sentenced him to what Norwegians consider a lengthy jail term. Two of his accomplices in Norway face less than two years in jail after they were found guilty of helping him before he left for England.
The judge claimed she was “certain” the 19-year-old would have carried out Foxtrot’s murder assignment if police hadn’t tracked him to his hotel room in Huddersfield, where he was found with two weapons and ammunition. His sentence is just half of what British law could have ordered (45 years) because of his young age, and the judge has demanded a minimum term of 13 years before he might be considered eligible for release.
His Norwegian attorneys immediately began trying to get him transferred to a Norwegian prison, claiming “a 20-year-term is quite strict for a boy who was 18 when he was arrested. The most important thing for us is to get him home.”
NewsinEnglish.no staff
