In the summer of 2024, following a high profile trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, a man named Gavin Plumb was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in prison for his obsessive online messaging in private chat groups of a harrowing plan he had formulated to abduct the famous television presenter Holly Willoughby. Who exactly was Gavin Plumb and how realistic was his abduction plan? Was he a potential killer and genuine threat or merely a sad bedroom fantasist who had become lost down the grim rabbit hole of vile misogynistic chat groups?

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