{"id":94742,"date":"2025-10-21T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94742\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:52:11","slug":"man-in-prison-for-holly-willoughby-murder-plot-loses-appeal-against-sentence-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/94742\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in prison for Holly Willoughby murder plot loses appeal against sentence – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Gavin Plumb is an obsessive loner’published at 13:22 BST<\/p>\n

13:22 BST<\/p>\n

\"Greg<\/p>\n

As Gavin Plumb’s appeal against his life sentence is dismissed at the Court of Appeal in London, we look back at what was said after his trial in last year.<\/p>\n

Det Ch Insp Greg Wood, who led Essex Police’s investigation, spoke to the BBC after his conviction in July 2024.<\/p>\n

He described Plumb as an “obsessive loner” who assembled “all the items he needed to cause Holly Willoughby some serious harm”.<\/p>\n

“If the American officer hadn’t contacted us\u2026 I’ve got no doubt that Gavin Plumb could’ve gone on to commit some really horrific crimes,” he added.<\/p>\n

Nicola Rice, specialist prosecutor at the Crown Prosecution Service, also said Plumb’s plan was “chilling”.<\/p>\n

“Gavin Plumb is a dangerous man who plotted unspeakable violence against one of the nation’s most familiar faces,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Despite his attempts to pass himself off as a harmless fantasist, the prosecution persuaded the jury that Plumb posed a very real threat.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Gavin Plumb is an obsessive loner’published at 13:22 BST 13:22 BST As Gavin Plumb’s appeal against his life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-94742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}