Yes and this was the latter, he was acting on it.
obviously we only have what was said in court, but it seems two of them involved in the kidnap /murder, him being the instigator, but other men on line involved, possibly being planned to go to where they held her to harm or rape her, it’s unknown.
but it does seem one of those men in the group has reported to the police when they realised it was real , they were going to do it, and not just a sick fantasy.
it is terrorism, and what’s utterly terrifying is the barrister said in court it was a vast network of like minded men, those men are out there, walking amongst us.
The involuntary celibate (incel) who hate and resent women because of it.
Now escalating to kidnap, rape, abuse, murder of an innocent woman. A mother, a child, a wife, a friend, a colleague, a sister. Just because she was in the public eye. The poster child for women in their view. They planned and were going to brutalise and then murder her.
Multiple men. Not just some lone weirdo. Multiple men in an online community, whose hate for women had reached such a level they had picked a woman to kidnap brutalise and murder.
and that’s utterly terrifying for women everywhere. Utterly terrifying For men , who have wives, mothers, daughters.