A LITTER picker at a popular Cheshire beauty spot threatened to slit the throat of a young girl and told women that a notorious murderer ‘would get them’.
Christopher Hollinworth left his innocent victims terrified after dishing out the threats, having become disgruntled at the amount of rubbish being left behind by visitors to Pickmere Lake.
His abusive tirades made numerous troubling references to Wayne Couzens, the Metropolitan Police officer who kidnapped and murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard in London in March 2021.
Warrington Magistrates Court heard yesterday, Wednesday, that the 37-year-old lived nearby to the ‘idyllic’ site and targeted families and swimmers during a series of incidents between August and October last year.
The first saw him approach a couple and their seven-year-old daughter as they were getting back into their car in the early evening following a trip to the lake.
He struck up a conversation with the dad but began ‘talking under his breath’, saying: “One of these days I’ll tell him, one of these days.”
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