Chester murder trial: Fynn Western-Davey owed a combined £70,000 drug debt

Jul 22 2010 by David Holmes, Chester Chronicle

POLICE intelligence indicated stabbing victim Fynn Western-Davey and his associates had access to firearms and were involved in a plot to kidnap a rival drugs gang member last November.

The potential victim, at a Blacon address, was warned by police while armed police visited Mr Western-Davey’s home to let him know they were aware of what was going on.

There was also police intelligence from January of this year that Mr Western-Davey had developed a severe crack cocaine habit.

More intelligence indicated the deceased owed a drugs debt of £50,000 to a Steve Young and £20,000 to another dealer.

In 2002 he was convicted of cannabis possession and a separate case of battery and criminal damage. In 2003 he was convicted of criminal damage and a minor assault during which the victim was punched and kicked. In the same year he was convicted of a common assault involving three others in the city centre.

In 2006 he was convicted of using threatening or abusive behaviour outside a pub. In the same year he was found guilty of an affray after he and another person kicked man outside a city centre pub, including when the complainant was on the ground.

At the time of his death Mr Western-Davey was on conditional bail for an attempted robbery at an Italian restaurant in Lower Bridge Street, Chester. Western-Davey, who had pleaded not guilty, was said to have threatened a chef with a pizza cutter.

In 2005 he was arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary at an address in Mancot, Deeside, when the deceased, who was with three others, were alleged to have broken down a toilet door where the complainant had barricaded himself in. The deceased was accused of smashing a glass over the complainant’s head and throwing hot water from a kettle and the kettle itself at the man. Two other men picked up knives and stabbed the complainant in the arm. Mr Western-Dave was picked out in an ID parade but the case was discontinued by the Crown Prosecution Service.