Fascinating how one man is being charged and tried for a kidnap and murder plot. That's quite a feat isn't it.
Also it has taken a long time and he's been in custody since October.
What happeened to the right to a "speedy and fair trial"?
He was plotting with an undercover officer.
That doesn’t exist in England.
If found guilty, he’ll get time off for the time he was held in detention.
A case that was not as successful.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Huisentruit
It’s Britain. Their legal system is...different.
The jury was told that in October 2023 Mr Plumb, engaged in an online discussion with a person he believed to be called David Nelson.
“In that discussion, the defendant explained his plans to kidnap, rape and murder the celebrity Holly Willoughby”, Ms Morgan said.
She said Mr Plumb’s plans were “graphic and were obviously sexually motivated”.
“They were real to him, members of the jury, and were based on an obsession with Holly Willoughby that had developed over a number of years,” said the prosecutor.
The court was shown a video Mr Plumb sent to the undercover officer when he asked if he was “serious” about the plan.
It showed a “kit of sexualised paraphernalia” laid out on a bed, including hand and ankle shackles, a rope and a ball gag.
Outlining how Plumb came to be arrested, Ms Morgan said: “What the defendant did not know then, was that the person that he was communicating with online was an undercover police officer based in the USA and not, in fact, a like-minded abductor.
“The defendant’s planning of the offences was then interrupted and he was arrested by the police,” she added.
Ms Morgan said during his arrest, Mr Plumb told officers: “I’m not going to lie, [Holly Willoughby] is a fantasy of mine”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxeezeg3km3o
Jesus.. The Prosecutions case appears to be strong. I have may have severely underestimated it ...