Grinning ‘assassin’ told police he had come to the UK to play Fornite and Fifa with his pals

A Norwegian teenage ‘assassin’ recruited to come to the UK to carry out a murder told border officers he was coming to visit ‘online friends from Fortnite and Fifa’, a court heard. Johannes Natland, 19, was arrested in a Huddersfield hotel with two guns and 12 rounds of ammunition after being recruited by the Swedish Foxtrot Network linked to the Iranian regime. Natland came from Stavanger, Norway, which his recruiters described as a ‘warrior city’ ripe for the recruitment of…