Holly Willoughby kidnap case – Security guard’s alleged plan

Mr Plumb sent a potential accomplice a video in 2023 of restraint “kit” items laid out on a bed, the court heard.

His footage, played to the jury, showed ankle shackles, ball gag, rope, metal cable ties and handcuffs.

Online searches were also read out, including “killers from Harlow in Essex”, “rape in the United Kingdom” and “violence against women – rape”.

Alison Morgan KC, prosecuting, read out a WhatsApp exchange where the defendant said: “We’ve got somewhere in the country to keep her, Ryan [another man he had been speaking with] is interested again by the looks of it.”

The man he was speaking with, known only as Marc, replied: “Cool where is the location?”

Mr Plumb said it was “a stud farm that’s abandoned”, adding: “It’s got cells.”

He said in a further message: “It could finally be happening.”

The defendant told Marc he was “looking more towards a home invasion”, before he would “get control of her” and “pick up some outfits”.

He said Ms Willoughby would be taken to a “waiting van” and on to “her new home and her new way of living”.