Paris Wilson said her text to Danny Cahalane saying she hoped he “ended up with acid in his face” looked “declasse” following the attack which saw him die three months after a horrific acid dousing
A drug dealer who died after an acid attack at his home in Plymouth was widely know to be “a grass,” his ex-wife has told his murder trial.
Ten people are on trial for the murder of Danny Cahalane who died on May 3, 2025 following an attack at his home in Lipson Road, Plymouth in the early hours of February 21, 2025.
The defendants are seven men from London and three women from Plymouth, seven of the ten are accused of 38-year-old Danny Cahalane’s murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter.
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Drug dealer Danny “owed a large amount of money to another drug dealer further up the chain of command” Lead prosecutor Joanna Martin KC previously told the jury during the trial at Winchester Crown Court today.
The jury yesterday heard transcripts of police interviews between Paris Wilson and detectives – which took place before Danny’s death – which examined her knowledge of events and messages leading up to the attack on him at his home, Plymouth Live reports.
Today, they heard further interviews carried out after police had secured more evidence from phone messages, but again prior to his death.
Paris was asked why she had, following an alleged kidnapping attempt at her home in Oreston on January 19, 2025, threatened Danny that she would go on social media claiming he was “a grass”. Asked by investigators why she did not think there would be consequences of posting such a claim, she replied that “everyone” had already thought he was one “for years”.
She said that the accusation was something “I know irritates him” but that he had never had consequences of being called it before, saying that even his own family would call him it.
She told police the reason people called him it was because of an occasion he was caught with drugs but did not go to prison. She went on to tell police that while people had thought he had avoided jail by informing on others [grassing], she insisted he “genuinely wasn’t one”.
Paris repeatedly told police that she was “angry” and “f***ing fuming” with Danny following the incident outside her home in The Quay, Oreston – despite her later admitting during police interviews that she had effectively organised a meeting between him and representatives of Frost, the senior drug dealer, to supposedly sort out the large drug debt he owed.
Police asked Paris about her message to Danny: “So I hope you and your butters girl both end up with acid in your faces”.
Paris replied – briefly laughing at one point: “Sounds declasse now doesn’t it? That was me just angry with him, but now, obviously, in hindsight, f***ing hell that’s not good is it?”
She went on to say she was angry, that Danny had “robbed” Frost and had “put everyone’s life at risk”.
Asked where the idea of acid came from, Paris replied: “Spite, nastiness. It’s not something I think Frost has mentioned to me before” before admitting that on previous occasions Frost had mentioned the way he would deal with Danny would include “cutting his fingers off, melting him, setting fire to him… things like that.”
Paris added: “Dan had said he was going to throw acid on Frost’s baby mum. It was quite a Cockney thing.”
She said she recalled Danny, when he was “involved in crime”, used to carry ammonia with him in “a squirty bottle… so it’s just something that I was aware of that they threatened each other with or do on occasion. Cockneys, that is.”
Asked again if Frost had mentioned acid, Paris conceded that the idea was “just in my head, just me being mean, mainly about his girlfriend as well.” She insisted she did not really want Danny hurt, but it was because she was so angry with him that she sent the message.
She accepted that her plan for Danny to meet with Frost’s men was “naive”, but regarding the Lipson Road address attack “wasn’t even naivety, I absolutely had no idea about it.” She added that she “would never have put him or my child in any sort of harms way”.
She told police: “I will maintain that I never, ever, ever, ever thought that Danny or my child were ever going to be in harm’s way.”
Asked what she thought Frost would do to Danny, she replied: “I don’t know really. What do you do when you owe someone that kind of money. do you have a fight. do you shout at them? I heard various threats from both parties and threats to me too.”
Other messages shown to Paris included one where she wrote “but at least nobody but Dan gets hurt” and “I can’t get her [Danny’s girlfriend’s] address and to be honest that’s the only way I know Dan would get hurt – nobody else and he deserves it. He lies every day, he can’t help it.”
She again insisted she had no prior knowledge that Danny would be hurt as “this had been going on for months and he hadn’t been hurt”. She explained that the threats had gone back and forth for some time and she knew that Dan could “handle himself”, remarking that he had been in fights when they were a couple.
With regards to her contact with Frost she said he was not a friend, but was “not someone who I would want to be not friends with at the time”. She said there was a “lot of appeasing going on because I want this situation solved for me and for Dan.
“I want my life to get back to normal and I want Dan to get back to normal and I don’t want this to be anything bad, so me provoking or stoking the fire was never going to help anybody. But he’s definitely not somebody who I would want to be hanging out with.”.
She said she thought Danny should have contacted the police about Frost and said looking back she should have also called police.
She told police that Danny told her on more than one occasion that he had got the debt paid and that was the reason she let him have their daughter over at his home on the night he was attacked.
She told police: “I was super naive. I was totally manipulated by Frost. The fact is, that you know somebody gave his address away that night and my child was in that house and my child doesn’t have her father now and that makes me f***ing angry”.
In answer to questions about her knowledge of the underworld, she said she was with Danny for a number of years and knew that drug dealing “demonstrates a lifestyle”.
She said that she learned the “slang” of it but had not been “directly implicated in anything like this”. Paris told police it became like “part of a story that you’re in, you are removed but you’re also in it.”
A total of 10 defendants – seven men from London and three women from Plymouth – are on trial, with seven of these accused of Mr Cahalane’s murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter, on May 3, 2025.
They are Paris Wilson, 35, of The Quay, Plymouth; Jude Hill, 43, of Wantage Gardens, Plymouth; Abdulrasheed Adedoja, 23, of Neasden, London; Ramarnee Bakas-Sithole, 23, of Islington, London; Israel Augustus, aged 26, of Tottenham, London; Isanah Sungum, 22, of Edmonton, London; and Brian Kalemba, 23, of Barking, London.
Five of the defendants are charged with the attempted kidnapping and attempted grievous bodily harm of Mr Cahalane on January 19 2025, at The Quay in Oreston, Plymouth. They are Adedoja, Bakas-Sithole and Wilson, along with Jean Mukuna, 23, and Arrone Mukuna, 25, both of Camden, London.
All – except for Jude Hill – are also charged with participating in criminal activities of an organised crime group, namely the supply of drugs including the enforcement of drug debts and profiting from the supply of drugs in which Ryan Kennedy played a leading role.
All ten deny the charges.
The trial continues.
