A court has heard Holly Willoughby murder plot accused’s four-word response to an undercover cop.
Gavin Plumb has been remanded in custody since October 2023 over an alleged plot to kidnap and murder the former This Morning host.
A security guard from a shopping centre is facing trial over an alleged plot to kidnap, rape and murder This Morning and Dancing on Ice host Holly Willoughby.
Plumb, from Harlow in Essex, is currently on the trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, after being charged with soliciting murder, incitement to commit a kidnapping and incitement to commit rape, between 2nd and 5th October, all of which he denies.
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Plumb, 37, allegedly planned to put together a “kidnap and restraint kit” and persuade David Nelson, who was an undercover police officer, to fly over to the UK to commit the supposed crimes.
Prosecutor Ms Morgan stated that Plumb has no other option but to argue that his remarks about the ITV host are merely “just words” as he has no alibi.
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She told the court: “All this defendant can say is what he said in his evidence. ‘This was just chat’. I can expect you to hear that. ‘Just fantasies, just words, all just a fantasy of a sad, lonely and overweight man’.”
“That’s what I predict is coming in suggestions to you. That he could never have seriously offended because he can’t even drive, that he was too overweight, he could never have climbed that wall, that he wasn’t right about a lack of CCTV, and that he hadn’t found another address that he could take Holly Willoughby after the kidnapping.”
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Ms Morgan said: “I suggest to you that he is a prolific liar and that he’s tried to minimise the extent of his criminality to you, and if you agree with that, what does that tell you when he stands there and tells you it’s all just fantasy?”
She added: “Your impression of him and what you believe when he stands there and says that is crucial. If this was all just a fantasy that was never intended, you have to think this was precisely the thing he wanted to make clear to the police when arrested.
“I suggest what you see in front of you is a sly individual. He knows what he has hidden away and what he has written on his phone. When he’s being arrested for the kidnap of Holly Willoughby, he said ‘not gonna lie she’s a fantasy of mine.'”
The trial continues.
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