Paris Wilson is on trial alongside nine other defendants over the death of Danny Cahalane, who was killed when two men broke into his Plymouth home and doused him with acid
The former wife of a man who was brutally murdered in a sulphuric acid attack was the “go to” for the drugs boss who plotted his death, a court heard yesterday.
Paris Wilson, 34, first met victim Danny Cahalane, a personal trainer, through a contact in prison where he was serving a sentence for supplying drugs. She is now on trial alongside nine other defendants over the drugs gang death of 38-year-old Cahalane who owed a drugs boss known as Frost – real name Ryan Kennedy – £120,000 over a drug supply debt.
In February 2025 two men allegedly broke into Cahalane’s home in the middle of the night in Plymouth, Devon, and doused him with sulphuric acid, and he died 10 days later in hospital.
Prosecutor Miss Joanna Martin KC told a murder trial at Winchester Crown Court that Wilson and Cahalane had married after they first met in jail and had a daughter together. She said: “Paris Wilson was fully aware of what Danny did to make his money. She was to tell the police she first had contact with him in prison and he was in prison for supplying drugs.
“They married after that. And then in 2022 the relationship broke down. By 2025 the relationship between Paris Wilson and Danny was pretty acrimonious. Paris Wilson was, it is the prosecution’s case, the go to constant in Plymouth.”
Miss Martin said Frost knew Cahalane’s whereabouts through Wilson ‘on the understanding Frost would make her wealthy’. The prosecutor said: “Frost was clearly in contact with Paris Wilson.” She said this was not through the police finding her deleted communications, but because Wilson told her mother Karen ‘about what Frost was saying and she was saying to Frost’.
“She knows Frost is a threat to Danny,” she said. “In a series of messages, Wilson tells her mum: ‘Frost has lost his mind. He will pay me if I find where he is today’. We suggest ‘he’ is Danny.”
Miss Martin said Wilson set up Cahalane because she would get paid a couple of thousand pounds and “because Danny deserved to be hurt”. Frost had contacted Wilson saying ‘get that bum to call me, he is dead’ She said: “Paris Wilson did set up Danny for Frost.” A second woman, Jude Hill, also from Plymouth, Devon, and Calahane had been in a relationship with her sister in the past.
Hill had moved to Thailand after her house and car were targeted in an attack she claims was promoted by Frost over an alleged drugs debt.
The court heard Hill, 43, was behind the smuggling of cannabis into the UK but it was difficult for the Crown to say whether this was for Frost or not. “Jude Hill knew what Frost did,” said Miss Martin. The court heard dad of two Calahane told police in hospital that he owed money to Frost who he grew up with in London and worked for in the Plymouth end of the drugs operation.
The jury has been told that he was killed by people working for Dubai-based Frost, because he wanted to ‘enforce his debt and show Danny Calahane who was boss’.
Calahane ‘stalled and lied’ to Frost about repaying the debt, saying a man under him in the Plymouth chain had gone to New Zealand without paying him, and that Cahalane had gambled away some of the drugs profit.
Frost made a series of death threats to Cahalane and three men tried to kidnap him outside Wilson’s home in Oreston, Plymouth, a month before the fatal attack – but Cahalane drove off with two eyewitnesses saying he looked ‘wide-eyed and terrified’.
The prosecution say Cahalane was murdered, and 10 people are in the dock. They are variously charged with murder and the alternative charge of manslaughter, attempted kidnap and attempted GBH with intent and participating in the activities of an organised crime group.
The 10 defendants deny all the charges and the trial, which is due to last 10 weeks, continues.
