Security guard Gavin Plumb has reportedly applied for permission to appeal his convictions, after being sentenced to life in prison.
He was found guilty after his plot to to kidnap, rape and murder former This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby, and jailed for life with a minimum of 16 years.
He is reportedly applying to appeal both his conviction and his sentencing.
A court official told the Mirror: ‘We have received applications to appeal both [his convictions and sentence].’
Earlier this month, a judge sentenced Plumb to a lengthy prison term for his ‘depraved and vile’ plans, stating that despite his crimes involving only one woman, he poses a serious risk to all women.
The judge added that Plumb, if released after the minimum term of 16 years – minus the 280 days he spent on remand, taking the total to 15 years and 85 days – would be subject to a permanent licence condition.
Mr Justice Edward Murray told him: ‘There is no doubt that if you had genuinely found one or more accomplices who were seriously interested in and had been willing to join you in carrying your plan through then you would have put this plan into action.’
Continuing to give his reasons for imposing the prison term, he continued: ‘Over a number of years, you pursued an unhealthy sexual obsession with Holly Willoughby that led you ultimately to plan over that period to kidnap, to rape and to murder her.
‘You intended to harm her husband and her children as part of your plan.
‘You discussed with Marc and David Nelson and no doubt others in hideous and revolting detail the prolonged sexual violence that you intended to inflict on Ms Willoughby once you abducted her and had her under your control.
‘You had previously been convicted of terrifying offences involving the threat of sexual violence against four different young women – I found you to be dangerous.’
Plumb, 37, was snared after a US undercover police officer infiltrated an online group called Abduct Lovers and became so concerned about Plumb’s posts that evidence was passed to the FBI.
US law enforcement in turn contacted police in the UK, and when Essex Police officers raided Plumb’s flat in Harlow they found bottles of chloroform and an ‘abduction kit’ complete with cable ties.
Following his conviction, Dancing on Ice star Willoughby, 43, issued a statement, saying: ‘As women we should not be made to feel unsafe going about our daily lives and in our own home.’
Thanking the undercover police and the Crown Prosecution Service ‘for ensuring that justice was done and that the defendant will not be able to harm any more women’, she went on: ‘I would also like to commend the bravery of his previous victims for speaking up at the time. Without their bravery this conviction may not have been possible.’
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Source: USA Today
