'Obsessed' Gavin Plumb fantasised for two years about kidnapping Holly Willoughby , but he "wanted the real thing", a court has heard. The 37-year-old shopping centre security guard is charged with arranging to commit "sexually motivated" murder and incitement to abduct the former This Morning presenter last October. During the trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, the court heard that Plumb is said to have considered taking a tour of her TV studio and trying to get employment as her security guard in an effort to get close to her.
He had 10,322 photos of the star stored on his phone in a file marked 'Holly', jurors were told, while he had also shared "deepfake pornography images" of the presenter which were "highly sexualised". He also allegedly claimed he knew her daily movements and the layout of her family home. Plumb, who denies the charges, unwittingly shared his "graphic" plans to kidnap, rape, and murder Ms Willoughby with an undercover US police officer, named David Nelson, online.
Calling himself BigBear in exchanges with the cop, Plumb said: "I know when she does and don't have security and that she doesn't have CCTV at home - what time she gets up in the morning." Prosecutor Alison Morgan KC said the defendant's messages revealed a "dark depravity" that would have resulted in "catastrophic violence" being inflicted on the star had he not been arrested. She said: "The prosecution's case is that the online discussions that this defendant had revealed his real intentions .