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Why Holly Willoughby will never reveal the full horrors of what she went through: As the stalker who plotted to murder her is jailed, KATIE HIND reveals her torment
It was the terrifying possibility that haunted Holly Willoughby every day for nine months: What if Gavin Plumb walks free? But yesterday Gavin Plumb was finally sentenced to life in prison.
But yesterday the grotesquely obese former security guard was finally sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum term of 16 years, for plotting to kidnap, rape and murder the presenter – and she will have been utterly relieved to hear the outcome. Delivering the sentence, Mr Justice Murray said: '[The plot] to murder Ms Willoughby was the endpoint of a plan to kidnap and falsely imprison her for the purpose of raping and otherwise sexually abusing her in ways that would have been particularly sadistic, brutal and degrading.' Holly was grateful to the women who were brave enough to speak out, including Emma Ashby, who told The Mail on Sunday how Plumb sellotaped her hands together and pulled out a kitchen knife in a warehouse at the shop where they worked 15 years ago.
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