System Process - 'Locum' consumes all of my CPU processing Power!

Hi,
This issue has been raised before and archived. I am having the same issues, emptying Trash takes forever, and working on my MBP is next to impossible as there is a time delay of a couple of seconds between typing on the keyboard and the letters appearing on screen! The computer has slowed down so much that I cannot work on it. Have tried rebooting - can I just force quit the 'LOCUM'.
Any help will be most gratefully received.

First things first
Emergency backup procedure
Drag and drop copy your users file folders (music, pictures, documents etc) to a regular external powered drive as soon as possible.
Do not use, setup or trust only TimeMachine at this troubled time as it will copy corrupted data and we need just your users files safe just in case. TimeMachine cannot be used with a Windows PC.
Unmount and Disconnect all external drives once the backup process is completed.
Note:
If you have any over 4GB sized files, those won't copy to a standard formatted FAT32/MSDOS drive from the factory, if you need to save these 4GB+ files use another blank/empty drive and use Disk Utility to format it 1 Partition, Option: GUID, Format: OS X Extended Journaled (or the standard default one for older Mac's).
Mac's cannot copy to nor format a NTFS drive. ExFAT format to be used with a Windows machine must be right click formatted by Windows, not OS X (does it wrong) XP macines can install a free exFAT update from Microsoft. Vista-Win 8 can format exFAT.
Formatting a drive will erase all data on it.
Next you can do this for us
Help us to help you on these forums
And start reading this for yourself
Why is my computer slow?
And start doing some stuff here to make sure
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
We will take it from there once I have more information from you

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