Acid attack victim was 'set up by his ex-wife'

A JURY has been told Danny Cahalane’s ex-wife helped an angry drug boss track the Plymouth father down - telling her mother she had been offered “a few grand”.

- By CARL EVE

The trial of 10 people continued on Friday with lead prosecutor Joanne Martin KC expanding on the circumstances leading up to the death of Danny Cahalane, who died in hospital on May 3 last year.

The court heard that he had been attacked at the front door of his house on Lipson Road in the early hours of February 21, leaving him with severe chemical burns. Though he survived the initial attack he later died at a hospital in Bristol.

The jury was previously told Danny was a “drug dealer in Plymouth who owed a large amount of money to another drug dealer further up the chain of command” - suggesting it was around £120,000.

The drug boss, whose real name was Ryan Kennedy, was known as “Frost”. The jury learned of an increasing number of threats by Frost to Danny via WhatsApp. In one, he wrote “Your mum's house going a light tonight as well. And your girls. And your gonna die. I'm a millionaire I ain’t stopping until your dead”.

He told Danny “I'll get your location again. And your gonna get shot.”

To underscore his point, telling Danny he had “a couple of hours”, Frost forwarded a video clip of Danny’s mother’s front door in Rotherhithe in London to him.

Ms Martin KC said Danny wrote back, insisting he would get the money to Frost, including getting “flyers” - people who would carry drugs and cash in suitcases into the country from abroad - but Frost dismissed this, saying “I don’t need flyers right now”.