A wife accused of plotting to murder her ex-husband in a doorstep acid attack admitted in court that she had texted him saying ‘I hope you end up with acid on your face’.
Paris Wilson, 35, told jurors that she messaged Danny Cahalane, 38, saying ‘drop dead’ a month before the fatal attack.
But Wilson, who has denied the murder, insisted she was being ‘nasty’ and was ‘just relaying’ threats that had been hurled towards Mr Cahalane from a drugs kingpin that he was mixed up with.
Prosecutors alleged Wilson helped plot the murder of fitness instructor Mr Cahalane after the breakdown of their marriage.
She allegedly fed information to a drugs kingpin that Mr Cahalane owed £120,000.
The father-of-two was ‘doused in acid’ in his own home in Plymouth, Devon, last year and died in hospital from his injuries 10 days later.
Wilson, who shared a child with Mr Cahalane, is also accused of setting him up to be ambushed the month before the attack.
The court previously heard she helped set up the ambush in exchange for around £2,000.
Paris Wilson, 35, told jurors that she messaged Danny Cahalane, 38, saying ‘drop dead’ a month before the fatal attack
Mr Cahalane was ‘doused in acid’ in his own home in Plymouth, Devon, last year and died in hospital from his injuries 10 days later
Pictured: Wilson. Prosecutors alleged she helped plot the murder of fitness instructor Mr Cahalane after the breakdown of their marriage
However, she denied ever getting money from the drug lord Frost, whose real name is Ryan Kennedy at Winchester Crown Court.
Today, she tearily told the court that she was ‘angry’ at the suggestion that she would put her child at risk.
She said: ‘There’s no way that I’m going to put that little girl at risk, not a chance.
‘It just makes me angry.’
In January 2025, Frost told her that Mr Cahalane had stolen from him, and she subsequently messaged her ex saying ‘Don’t message me, drop dead’.
She also wrote: ‘I hope you and your butters girl both end up with acid on your faces’.
Explaining the messages, Wilson said: ‘I was being nasty to him, but I know that it feels almost impossible to consider that me saying it was a coincidence, and it wasn’t a coincidence.
‘I had heard that as a threat, I’ve heard Frost threaten Dan with melting him.
‘I had heard that threat back from Dan to Frost.’
She said she was ‘just relaying what I have heard’.
The court heard details about sour messages between Wilson and Mr Cahalane.
Jennifer Knight KC, defending Wilson, told the court that Wilson – who is ‘spiritual’ – texted Mr Cahalane that he was doing things which had ‘low frequency energy’, including lying and being selfish.
While crying, Wilson told the court: ‘We did have quite a turbulent relationship when we were together and after, but he was so capable.
‘He was a crappy person, but he also wasn’t. I just I wanted him to be the person I knew he could be, not the person he was being.’
She said she was ‘just being mean’ when she said she didn’t care if he became a ‘slaphead’.
In total nine people are on trial at Winchester Crown Court, Hampshire.
Wilson, from Plymouth, is accused of murder, manslaughter, participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group, attempted kidnap and attempted grievous bodily harm with intent.
The others accused of murder are five men from London – Abdulrasheed Adedoja, 23, Ramarnee Bakas-Sithole, 23, Israel Augustus, 26, Isanah Sungum, 22, Brian Kalemba, 23 and one woman from Plymouth, Jude Hill, 43.
These defendants have also pleaded not guilty to a charge of manslaughter against Mr Cahalane at Winchester Crown Court.
Adedoja, Bakas-Sithole, Augustus, Wilson, Sungum and Kalemba have all denied participating in the criminal activities of an organised crime group, along with Jean Mukuna, 23, and Arrone Mukuna, 25, from London.
Adedoja, Bakas-Sithole, Wilson, Jean Mukuna and Arrone Mukuna have pleaded not guilty to the attempted kidnap of Mr Cahalane.
The trial continues.
