Nurse who plotted to kill and eat teen is jailed for 9 years
AN NHS nurse nicknamed ‘the Canterbury Cannibal’, who was convicted of sexual grooming after plotting to behead and eat a girl, has been jailed for nine years.
Dale Bolinger, 58, 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.
He chatted with the teenager, a Mexican girl called ‘Eva’ said to be living in Germany, on a website called the Dark Fetish Network (DFN).
In conversations, Bolinger described sex acts he wanted to perform on her and how he would murder her, which she said she wanted to happen. After a fourday 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, from Canterbury, admitted other charges, including administering a poison or noxious substance after he put a cloth soaked in drycleaning 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. As he was jailed yesterday for the offences, Judge Adele Williams said his behaviour was ‘ a bhorrent, s hocking a nd dangerous’.
American national Bolinger was made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order (Sopo) to stop him using the internet without permission.