A shopping centre security officer hatched plans to kidnap TV presenter Holly Willoughby and take her to a “dungeon” in an enactment of his 'ultimate fantasty', a court has heard.
Prosecutors said that in his online discussions, using a username identifying himself as “BigBear”, the defendant spoke of how she would be killed and “disposed” of. Jurors were told the defendant, who is alleged to have developed an obsession with the star over a number of years, had 10,322 photos of her on his phone.
Alleged victims of sex offences or targets of sex offence conspiracies have a right to automatic anonymity for life from the moment an allegation is made by them or anyone else. The plans allegedly involved attempting to “ambush” the presenter at her family home and Plumb is accused of discussing taking time off work in order to work on the plot.
The defendant is alleged to have conspired online with the man he knew as Mr Nelson, who was to travel to the UK from the US and created a “detailed plan” to carry out the offences. “He spent hours planning an attack on Holly Willoughby that involved violence, rape and ultimately… murder.” “However, the fact that the plan may have been likely to fail at some point does not mean that the defendant was not sincere in his desire and intention to carry out such an attack, seeking to enlist others to maximise the chance of success and going so far as to acknowledge that a custodial sentence was likely to be the consequence of his actions.
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