Overview
- On Friday July 31, 2026, Winchester Crown Court sentenced Abdulrasheed Adedoja and Israel Augustus to life with minimum terms of 31 and 30 years after murder convictions and jailed Paris Wilson for nine years and Ramarnee Bakas for 10 years following a 15‑week trial.
- Prosecutors told jurors that two men ambushed Danny Cahalane at his Plymouth home on February 21, 2025 and threw highly concentrated sulphuric acid at him while his young daughter slept upstairs; he died of his injuries on May 3, 2025 after weeks in hospital.
- The court found Paris Wilson supplied the attackers with timing and location details, exchanged hostile messages with Cahalane and used child contact arrangements to set him up during an earlier attempted kidnap in January 2025.
- Prosecutors say the campaign of threats, the attempted kidnap and the fatal assault were ordered by a drugs boss nicknamed 'Frost' (named in court as Ryan Kennedy), who is believed to be operating abroad and was not before the court.
- Earlier trials and guilty pleas have already punished other members of the same organised‑crime network for enforcing debts, attempted kidnap and drug supply, and the case highlights how organised drug debts can drive violent, premeditated attacks using corrosive chemicals.