'CANTERBURY CANNIBAL' JAILED FOR GROOMING 14 YR-OLD HE PLOTTED TO BEHEAD AND EAT

'Canterbury cannibal' jailed for grooming 14-year-old he plotted to behead and eat

A NHS nurse, dubbed "the Canterbury cannibal", was jailed today for sexually grooming a 14-year-old girl who he plotted to behead and eat.

By: Sarah Ann HarrisPublished: Thu, September 25, 2014



Dale Bolinger, dubbed the 'Canterbury Cannibal', was jailed todayDale Bolinger, dubbed the 'Canterbury Cannibal', took a selfie with his new axe

Dale Bolinger, bought an axe from a DIY store in Broadstairs, Kent, the day before he had planned to meet the young girl at Ashford International rail station.

The 58-year-old met the teenager, a Mexican girl called "Eva" said to be living in Germany, on a website called the Dark Fetish Network (DFN).

The pair continued to chat online and Bolinger began grooming her, describing sexual acts he wanted to perform on her.

He also told her how he planned to kill her – something she said she wanted.

Bolinger was found guilty of attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following sexual grooming.

In online chats with other users, Bolinger also claimed to have eaten a 39-year-old woman and a five-year-old child.

On his profile he listed his interests as "cannibalism, mainly the hunting and preparation of young but sometimes not so young women".

At his trial at Canterbury Crown Court, chat logs were read out between Bolinger and users in which he referred to beheading a 14-year-old, eating children while their mothers watched, and cooking and eating a pregnant woman and her foetus.

He told the court that he did not believe "Eva" - who used the surname "Gonza" but later told him it was "Nada" - was a 14-year-old girl.

He told police that he thought it was likely that she was actually a man in his 30s "surrounded by pizza boxes" who would be dead by his 40s.

Bolinger also insisted that he would ever really behead anyone.

However prosecutors said it was clear that Bolinger did believe "Eva" was a 14-year-old girl, and he had bragged to others in chat logs about the proposed meeting.

Bolinger's graphic chat logs were discovered by the FBI in New York, Prosecutor Martin Yale told the court.

Information was passed to Kent Police and he was arrested at the hospital where he worked.

Police then found indecent pseudo-images of children aged four to 16 which had been digitally manipulated at his home.

The pictures had been given names including "Dinner" and "The BBQ", which Mr Yale said that pointed to Bolinger's sexual interest in cannibalism relating to children.

At his trial, Bolinger was asked by defence counsel Paul Jarvis whether he had ever attempted to kill anyone, eaten human flesh or sexually assaulted a child.

Dale Bolinger
He replied: "No, not in reality, just in fantasy."

In his closing speech, Mr Jarvis said it was "quite clear that Mr Bolinger is far more Walter Mitty than Hannibal Lecter".

He added: "He is a fantasist and sometimes he goes too far and sometimes he stops, and sometimes - when the person encourages him - the fantasy continues."

The court heard that Bolinger told police he had bought the axe from Homebase to remove two tree stumps from the side of his house.

He also claimed that he had only gone to meet "Eva" because he was concerned for her safety.

He added that he "probably would have wet" himself if she had actually turned up and would have called social services.

He explained to the jury why he visited the DFN website and said: "Initially, I was looking to find people with like minds and to see where they came from, but it soon spiralled down into trying to shock people enough that they would ask 'Is this fantasy?"'

In police interview, he said he started having fantasies about cannibalism at about the age of six, and he blamed his "very domineering" mother for his "weird" behaviour.

He told officers: "By the time I got to 14, I turned into the villain of the piece and I wondered what it would be like to eat a girl."

Bolinger added that he felt ashamed of his fantasies and had never discussed them with his wife of 34 years, Rosemary, or their children.

He said: "It was less to do with sexual gratification and more to do with anger.

"The people that do it (cannibalism) are seriously deranged, and I may be many things but I am not deranged."

Ashford International, where Bolinger planned to meet the girlBolinger planned to meet the girl at Ashford International [GETTY]

Psychiatrists ruled that Bolinger, whose has been shunned by his family, was not suffering from any form of mental illness.

Bolinger admitted in interview that discs found in his home containing indecent images of children were his, the jury heard.

Mr Yale said that one image featured a girl of between six and nine lying naked on a serving plate with an apple in her mouth – and many others were of a similar nature.

Bolinger said of the images: "I do not find children sexually attractive but I do find them interesting as a food source."

Mr Jarvis said in mitigation that whoever "Eva" was "she was clearly a willing party for whatever was going to happen".

He added that Bolinger's family had deserted him, he faces severe difficulty ever working again and has "little to look forward to bar advancing years".

Before the trial he also admitted other charges, including administering a poison or noxious substance after he put a cloth soaked in dry cleaning fluid over his friend Urlene King's mouth in July 2010.

He also pleaded guilty to making indecent pseudo photographs of children, and seven counts of publishing an obscene article.

Jailing Bolinger for nine years, judge Adele Williams said: "You demonstrated when giving evidence that you are an arrogant and manipulative man.

"You have shown no remorse and indeed cannot understand why anyone should find your behaviour in any way abnormal or perverted, let alone criminal.

"You lack any insight into your behaviour and fail to understand that right-minded people will find your behaviour abhorrent, shocking, repulsive and dangerous - dangerous because, by talking about these activities, there is always the risk that your fantasies will tip over into actions.

"There was always the real danger that you would inflame or incite people with whom you were discussing these activities to move from fantasy to action themselves."

Bolinger, an American national was also made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order (Sopo) to stop him using the internet without permission by Judge Williams.

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