Holly Willoughby kidnap plot trial: Gavin Plumb says TV presenter was his ‘celebrity crush’

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1. I feel so sorry for her. Imagine know that that beast was obsessed sexually with you.

2. He is genuinely terrifying even as a very tall large man myself 

3. Kidnapping? Aye, maybe he can just about manage the napping part.

4. *He guffaws about not really intending doing anything….however…the article is definitely worth a read*

   The court has heard he has two convictions for attempted kidnap from 2006, after trying to abduct two women off the Stansted Express train, later claiming they were members of cabin crew. He had rope and an imitation firearm when he was arrested.

   Plumb said he was wearing a uniform and travelling between car parks where he worked handing out tickets and although he admitted he “had a stewardess fantasy back then” he said he did it “to get out of the relationship” and it was a “cry for help”.

   He was handed a suspended sentence and in 2008 said he used a box cutter to hold two “shouting and screaming and crying” 16-year-old girls in a warehouse where he worked, taping one of their hands behind her back.

5. I very much doubt he has any clue how to use those metal “zip ties”.

6. Can anyone explain the undercover US cop part of this? Was he lurking on the forum where the accused posted this stuff or what was the situation?

7. Do I take it from this article that Plumb has children?

8. Gavin Plumb looks exactly how I expected Gavin Plumb to look. Well, actually I expected him to have a horrible beard.

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10. I have a huge crush on Ewan McGregor. Not once have I thought “I should kidnap him”

11. Those guffawing about how large and unfit this guy probably is, are forgetting that larger bodies require more muscle to carry the weight, and men are naturally stronger/denser than women. Regardless of his weight and fitness, it would genuinely be scary and likely hard to fight back if a dude 2-4 times your size decided to overpower you. I feel like certain comments are downplaying how absolutely awful this could have been if he hadn’t been stopped.

12. ‘He was handed a suspended sentence and in 2008 said he used a box cutter to hold two “shouting and screaming and crying” 16-year-old girls in a warehouse where he worked, taping one of their hands behind her back.’

    What the fuck

13. I legitimately cannot tell if this man can be saved or if he needs to be locked away in Broadmoor before he can become a danger to the public. Plumb’s rap sheet suggests the latter.

    This is what happens when mental healthcare systems gets seriously neglected by rat-faced non-dom asshole leaders who care more about lining the pockets of their big pharma lobbyists than actually ensuring people can get the help they need.

14. I was going through that article thinking he was just some sad shut-in chap, flat looks very much like a nerd’s room, and was believing his line about it being a fantasy that he effective role played. The ‘kidnap kit’ does look like a cheap kink kit. But when you get to the point about his previous conviction it very much changes my mind.

15. Is it just me or does anyone else shudder when they she him? It’s not just the way he looks but it is his previous form.

16. He’s obviously a vile piece of shit, but his defence that it was just a fantasy and he knew he couldn’t ever do it does seem accurate. He can probably barely walk down the stairs let alone kidnap someone 😂

17. Part of the defence’s case was that the kidnap plan involved jumping over a fence and.. well, look at him. That’s it. That’s the defence.

18. Very Precog Precrime-y.

    Fuck it. Rather perpetrators are prevented and charged accordingly.

19. Definitely not normal but not necessarily mental illness.

20. He looks like he who has no life from South Park https://www.ginx.tv/uploads/WoWSouthpark.jpg

21. He’s not a bad looking dude, he might have grown on her

22. Gavin Plump? Is that anything?
    It’s been a long day.

23. Phwoar he shouldn’t have tried with kidnap, should have walked right up to her and asked her out. Blokes a sex god