A nurse in the UK who has been given the name “The Canterbury Cannibal”, has been jailed for nine years, after he was convicted of sexual grooming after plotting to behead and eat a young girl. 58 year old Dale Bolinger, is believed to have bought an axe from a DIY store in Broadstairs, Kent, the day before he tried to meet the 14-year-old, whom he groomed online.
Mr Bolinger is understood to have had a number of conversations with the teenager, who was 14 year old girl Mexican girl called “Eva” said to be living in Germany, on a website called the Dark Fetish Network (DFN). Mr Bolinger apparently described sex acts he wished to perform on her during their conversations, he also said that he would murder her, 14 year old is thought to have agreed with his requests.
After a four-day trial at Canterbury Crown Court in July, Bolinger was found guilty of attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following sexual grooming. Before the trial, Bolinger is believed to have 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.
Bolinger also pleaded guilty to making indecent photographs of children, and seven counts of publishing an obscene article.
The judge told Mr Bolinger that his behaviour was “abhorrent, shocking and dangerous”.