A killer who murdered his victim over a copy of The Wind in the Willows kept a celebrity 'hit list' with potential targets including Simon Cowell, Kate Moss, Rio Ferdinand and Jeffrey Archer.
Michael Danaher, 50, was convicted of the killing of Adrian Greenwood, 42, after stabbing him to death over a £500,000 first edition copy of the classic.
He was jailed for 34 years after a jury rejected his claim that he was acting in self defense.
Detectives also discovered the obese criminal held a list of ransom targets including the X Factor mogul and millionaire footballer.
During a four week trial the jury heard how he had compiled a list of high-profile and wealthy targets for theft, robbery and ransom demands, along with some not-so-famous targets.
They were all listed in a documented titled "Enterprises" which noted Eamonn Holmes, Michael Parkinson, Alan Sugar, Katie Hopkins and Greg Dyke.
The partial section of the list above reveals the names of disgraced politician-turned author Jeffrey Archer, supermodel Kate Moss and financier Guy Hands.
The methods of execution listed included 'stun', using his stungun disguised as a mobile phone, while the 'expected take colum reveals the booty he believe he would be able to take.
Chillingly, alongside the name of his victim Adrian Greenwood is listed 'rare books'.
The 28 stone killer stabbed Mr Greenwood 33 times, inflicting wounds to his back, chest and neck and broke the historian's arm by stamping on him, before scoured his home for items to steal as his victim lay on the floor dying.
He then took a selfie on Mr Greenwood's street in Oxford moments after fleeing, showing the killer with blood smeared on his beard.
Danaher committed the murder following the collapse of his marriage and months after losing his life savings in an investment scam.
Some of the injuries were caused by the tip of the knife, possibly during attempts to extract information from Mr Greenwood about the whereabouts of the rare book.
He stole the book, along with Mr Greenwood's mobile, wallet, laptop, camcorder and Nikon camera during the attack in in April.
Danaher, the son of Irish immigrants, took redundancy from engine manufacturer Perkins in Peterborough a few years ago.
But he lost the lot in an investment scam and began plotting to rob wealthy individuals.
Sources described him as an “arrogant slob” and loner who would stay up all night playing computer games and surfing the net.
Mr Greenwood's name was found on the spreadsheet on Danaher's laptop and mobile phone.
The spreadsheet was "efficient, and considered and really quite brutal", reading like "an everyday list of people to see, things to do", prosecutor Oliver Saxby QC told Oxford Crown Court.
Danaher planned to get this money by either stealing, robbing the targets' homes or by demanding a ransom by kidnapping an occupant, Mr Saxby said.
He was found guilty of murder after the jury rejected his claims he had acted in self defence.
A source said: “He was an arrogant man who always thought he knew more than you. He liked taking the mickey out of other people but didn't like it when people did that to him.
“He was so fat his car ended up with broken suspension and he could hardly fit behind the wheel because his stomach was so big.”
Unemployed Danaher, separated from his wife with whom he has two sons, had been planning the raid for four months.
The last sighting of Mr Greenwood was at Sainsbury's supermarket in Kidlington, Oxford, two days before he was found dead.
The wounds, one of which was four inches deep, may have been made when Mr Greenwood was defenceless.
Two weeks before the killing, Danaher visited the North London home of venture capitalist Adrian Beecroft, who was on his target list, pretending to deliver a parcel.
Danaher fled when an occupant called the police.
Hours after Mr Greenwood' died, he allegedly drafted a letter to Mr Beecroft's wife Jacqueline demanding 200 bitcoins, worth £95,200, and saying: "I know where your daughter goes to school."
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