Death in Paradise fans will spot a new detective in the latest series of the show but who is Don Gilet and where have we seen him before? Gilet will take on the role of DI Mervin Wilson in the ...

Don Gilet made his debut as Wilson in the Christmas special. He arrived in Saint Marie on family business and reluctantly delayed his departure when his boss at the Met asked him to solve a murder.

The new sheriff in town, Don Gilet’s DI Mervin Wilson, is the fifth to parachute into tropical (and fictional) Saint Marie since Death in Paradise debuted in 2011, with his predecessors clocking ...