Man ‘plotted to put girls in acid’

A writer was snared by undercover police offering to pay £10 million to set up the kidnap and sexual abuse of young girls on camera before dissolving them in acid, a court heard.

Gihan Muthukumarana, 27, was caught discussing his plan to take ten underage girls before raping and beating them, then “finishing them off ”.

Muthukumarana, who describes himself as a writer and filmmaker, claimed “high up” businessmen and politicians would pay him millions of pounds to watch and have access to videos of the abuse of girls kidnapped from care homes, a court heard.

He was introduced to an “escort” – actually an undercover policewoman posing as a call girl called “Donna” – who would arrange for the abuse to take place and be paid £10m to take part in killing the victims, Southwark Crown Court was told.

The plot was due to take place at a leisure centre and victims would then be strangled in the back of a van, the court heard. Muthukumarana, of Feltham, Middlesex, denies one count of facilitating sexual activity with children and three counts of downloading indecent images of children between 1 October, 2015, and 2 February, 2016. The trial continues.