Holly Willoughby: Gavin Plumb jailed for life for murder plot

In his sentencing remarks, Mr Justice Murray mentioned the element of lots of the different messages Plumb despatched have been “so horrifying, stunning and graphic intimately they weren’t learn out in open courtroom”.

The trial heard he bought 400 heavy-duty steel cable ties, in addition to bottles presupposed to include chloroform to knock Ms Willoughby and her husband out upon breaking in to their home.

Plumb instructed Marc in March 2023 in a voice notice: “We’re then gonna power her [Ms Willoughby] to make a video saying she include us underneath her personal free will… and she or he’s absolutely consenting to all the things we do to her – in order that covers us.”

The jury was instructed he checked out an deserted stud farm with cells to “preserve” Ms Willoughby.

“He’s no fantasist – he’s a calculated, violent, sexual predator who has spent his grownup life inflicting or plotting to inflict hurt on ladies,” mentioned Det Ch Insp Greg Wooden, of Essex Police.