Holly Willoughby kidnap plot trial: Gavin Plumb found guilty of planning to abduct, rape and murder TV presenter

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1. Calling it now: he’ll get life, minimum term maybe 25 years or so.

2. What’s the craic with this because he looks deeply mentally unwell.

   How credible were these plans?

3. “The court heard the father-of-two has two previous convictions for attempted kidnap, for trying to abduct two women off a train, and two for false imprisonment, after holding two 16-year-old girls at knifepoint.”

   Father of TWO!? Huh??????????????????

4. with his previous he shouldn’t have been walking around.

   How did he get work as a security guard with that kind of previous? Why wasn’t he imprisoned? Why don’t we protect innocent people and give prison time for such escalating and consistent dangerous behaviour?

   It’s only cos he ended up speaking to an undercover US officer that he got caught. If he had turned his sights to an easier target or been presented with an easier opportunity….it’s just too awful to think about

5. I dunno would he have actually carried out any of the stuff but he’s a vile creep so good riddance.

6. This sort of conviction is bound to be open to being challenged, because of the involvement of the undercover cop. Some American cop talks to him on Kik and encourages him to get more and more extreme, then he doesn’t actually do anything, and then he gets arrested, and claims it was all a fantasy. But how do we know what his intentions were, short of being a mind reader? Undercover cops have been known to do this with Muslims as well; talk to them online, pretend to be their friend, and all the time push them further into extremism so that they will incriminate themselves.

   The probable real function of this sort of conviction is *pour encourager les autres*, that is, to send a message to people to watch how they behave online, and also to the public, older members of which are a bit anxious and scared about “internet trolls” and deep fakes and so on.

7. Typical 2 year suspended sentence and a slap on the wrist incoming.

   Don’t worry he will be back at it in no time.

8. Can you imagine what Holly feels about this? Id genuinely feel terrified even though they caught the twat

9. I had a moderate obsession with Shakira when I was younger, but it had a different character than Plumb’s obsession with Willoughby…

   I thought it would be quite pleasant to go for a cappuccino and a slice of baklava with her on a rainy summer afternoon, but I never reached out to ask her.

10. At first I thought he was just a horrible incel with fantasies he wasn’t going to play out but got off on the idea of…. But after further context in his previous convictions, definitely more dangerous. Even if he had just been an incel fantasising, I think he deserved custodial sentencing anyway to discourage the horrible kind of conversations that go online through the use of misuse of communications act or something. After hearing he has previous, why wasn’t this guy on some sort of list let alone free…

11. 20 seconds in jail and an apology from the police to the rapist. Job well done.

12. This is from a different article but seriously this can’t be real surely?! Lol

    >Plumb told Marc in March 2023 in a voice note: “We’re then gonna force her [Ms Willoughby] to make a video saying she come with us under her own free will… and she’s fully consenting to everything we do to her – so that covers us.”

    https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ngp983q4xo.amp

    He can’t seriously have been that stupid that he believed that she could be forced under duress to say she was consenting to what was happening to her, and that they would be legally covered?! Lol.

13. Gavin plumb is a villainous name straight out of a Roahl Dahl book.