Paris Wilson, 35, from Plymouth, Devon, was found not guilty on the higher charge of murder in the death of husband Danny Cahalane in May 2025

On Thursday she was found guilty of the alternate charge of manslaughter and attempted kidnapping

Fitness instructor and father-of-two, Danny Cahalane, was murdered last year in a doorstep acid attack over his nearly $160,000, [£120,000], debt after he gambled away a drug kingpin’s money

Cahalane, 38, suffered catastrophic injuries during the attack at his home in Plymouth, Devon, on February 21 2025, and died in hospital ten weeks later

Jury convicted Paris Wilson and Ramarnee Bakas, 23, on manslaughter while Abdulrasheed Adedoja, 23, and Israel Augustus, 26, were found guilty for the murder of Cahalane

Paris Wilson, Jean Mukuna, 24, Arrone Mukuna, 25 were found guilty of attempted kidnap, but Isanah Sungum, 22, was convicted only on the charge of participating in organized crime

Sentencing for the convicts is scheduled for next month

Paris Wilson, [photo], 35, was convicted of the manslaughter of her ex-husband Danny Cahalane after she plotted with a crime gang to carry out a horrific acid attack on Cahalane in his home on Feb 21, 2025

A UK court Thursday found a woman who helped orchestrate a fatal acid attack on her ex-husband has guilty of manslaughter and attempted kidnapping.
Fitness instructor and father-of-two, Danny Cahalane, was murdered last year in a home invasion acid attack over his nearly $160,000, [£120,000], debt, after he gambled away a drug kingpin’s money, according to court documents.
The attack, the fallout of a feud over a drug debt, allegedly was a setup organized by Cahalane’s ex-wife, Paris Wilson, in collusion with a drug lord whom he was owing.
Jurors at the Winchester Crown Court. were told that drugs kingpin Ryan Kennedy, also known as ‘Frost’ in the criminal underworld, orchestrated the hit on Cahalane to show him ‘who was boss’.
On Thursday May 14, Wilson, 35, from Plymouth was found not guilty of murdering Danny Cahalane. However, she was convicted on the lesser alternative charge of manslaughter.
In the early hours of the morning on February 21, 2025, two men broke into Cahalane’s home and splashed him with a highly concentrated and corrosive form of sulphuric acid, burning his entire body.
The home invaders also stabbed him as he fought back.
The 38-year-old fitness buff, who also doubled as a drug dealer, died in hospital in hospital in Bristol on May 3, ten weeks after the was attack.

Danny Cahalane suffered catastrophic injuries during a fatal acid attack at his home in Plymouth in February 21, 2025. He died ten weeks later on May 3

Initially ten people were named in the crime. However, the case against Jenna Said, 39, also known as and Jenna O’Grady was dropped.
Ultimately seven men from London and two women from Plymouth, stood trial in connection with Danny’s death at Winchester Crown Court, until
Six of the nine defendants, Paris Wilson, 35, Jude Hill, 43, Abdulrasheed Adedoja, 23, Ramarnee Bakas-Sithole, 23, Israel Augustus, 26, and Isanah Sungum, 22, were accused of Danny’s murder and an alternative charge of manslaughter
Six of the defendants Abdulrasheed Adedoja, Ramarnee Bakas-Sithole, Paris Wilson, Jean Mukuna, 24, Arrone Mukuna, 25, were charged with the attempted kidnapping of Cahalane on January 19 2025,

The attack was masterminded by the victim’ ex-wife Paris Wilson. The pair met when Cahalane was in prison. Prosecutors said Wilson lied repeatedly to both Cahalane and police

The jury returned guilty verdicts for manslaughter to Wilson and fellow defendant Ramarnee Bakas, 23.
It also returned guilty verdicts for murder on Abdulrasheed Adedoja and Israel Augustus . Sentencing is provisionally set for those defendants on 8 June.
Along with Wilson, along with Jean Mukuna and Arrone Mukuna were also found guilty of attempted kidnap. The Mukunas are set to be sentenced on Friday, May 15.
Isanah Sungum was found guilty of being part of an organized crime gang but acquitted on the murder charge and the alternative charge of manslaughter. He is due to be sentenced on Friday.
The jury found Jude Hill not guilty for murder and the alternative charge of manslaughter.
However, she had previously admitted a charge of being concerned in the supply of cannabis and will be sentenced for that offense on Friday.
Brian Kalemba was found not guilty of being part of an organized crime gang.
Adedoja and Bakas-Sithole, were found not guilty of attempted kidnapping.

Abdulrasheed Adedoja, [left], 23, and Israel Augustus, 26, were convicted of murder

The court heard Paris Wilson, the mother of Cahalane’s child, played a central role in the diabolical plot that led to his death.
Prosecutors said Wilson knowingly passed information about Cahalane’s movements to Dubai-based drugs boss called Ryan Kennedy, also known as Frost, and helped facilitate the attack.
Cahalane the court heard, was “middle management” in a drug-dealing operation and owed Ryan Kennedy £120,000.
The court heard during the four-month-long trial Wilson and Cahalane met in 2015 while he was still serving a sentence for a drug dealing conviction at Dartmoor Prison.
The pair wedded in 2020, producing a daughter. The marriage broke down two years later when Cahalane was given a suspended jail sentence for drug offenses.

Ramarnee Bakas-Sithole, 23, was convicted of manslaughter, same as Paris Wilson

Wilson was pressed for information by Kennedy to help locate her ex-husband, going as far as being offered money.
The court heard Wilson allegedly helped track down her ex-husband so the drug lord could recover his money “on the understanding Frost would make her wealthy” – that she set her ex up because she expected to be paid a few thousand pounds. She also believed “Danny deserved to be hurt.”
The jury accepted the prosecution case that Wilson knew “exactly what was coming” and was prepared to let it happen.
Messages shown to the court revealed Wilson expressing anger and resentment about Cahalane’s new life, including his home and his girlfriend.
Just days before the attack, Wilson sent a message saying she hoped Cahalane and his partner would end up with acid in their faces.
Prosecutors said this was not an idle remark but clear evidence of foreknowledge.

Danny Cahalane, [photo], was bathed with highly corrosive acid at his home in Plymouth, UK in February 2025. He died ten weeks after the attack

On the night of the attack, two men armed with sulphuric acid and a screwdriver forced their way into Cahalane’s home.
Cahalane chased them out of his property, but they came back in and one threw acid on him.
He suffered devastating burns and told police he did not know who the men were but believed Kennedy was behind the attack and Wilson had set him up as she knew he would be home that night as he had their daughter.
An ambulance crew found him in extreme pain and gave him morphine before taking him to hospital, where he died on 3 May.

Prosecutors said Paris Wilson, [photo], lied repeatedly, both to Cahalane and to police, to conceal her role. Wilson denied knowing the attack on her ex would happen, claiming she would never have allowed her daughter to be in danger. The jury rejected her account

Initially charged with manslaughter, the case against Jenna Said, [photo], 39, also known as and Jenna O’Grady, ultimately was dropped

The case against Wilson denied knowing the attack would take place and told the court she would never have allowed her daughter to be in danger.
The jury rejected her account.
Prosecutors said Wilson lied repeatedly, both to Cahalane and to police, to conceal her role.
In closing speeches, the prosecution described her as a key facilitator whose actions made the murder possible.

The assailants armed with an acid bath, attacked Danny Cahalane at his home [photo], on Lipson Road in Plymouth, Devon, in February 2025

During the trial, prosecutor Jo Martin KC, told the court Cahalane was targeted because he owed Kennedy in the region of $160,000, [£120,000].
Kennedy had sent messages about having 320kg of cannabis in a shipping container which would have a wholesale value of $1.28 million [£960,000], but would be worth about $4.27 million [£3.2 million], if sold in single gram deals.
The prosecutor said Kennedy became “incensed” at Cahalane’s “stalling” and failure to repay the money and first of all organized a kidnap attempt on him on January 19 2025. When the kidnap attempt failed, the recovery operation escalated to the fatal attack.
Cahalane speak to police from his hospital bed before he died that he had built up debts after one of his junior drug dealers had run off without paying him.
Wilson became Kennedy’s “go-to contact in Plymouth to try to put pressure on Danny to pay up, and then, to get information about Danny’s whereabouts”.
“Paris Wilson was seemingly happy to give up all that information on the understanding Frost would make her wealthy,” The prosecutors said.
Sentencing for the convicts is scheduled for next month.