- "When I say 'cleaner', Arthur, I mean cleaner. Like Mr Sheen, not Martin fucking Sheen."
- ―Danny West
Danny West is a character in The Getaway series who acts as a major character in The Getaway: Black Monday.
Danny was a boxing trainer in Shoreditch who trained his best friend Eddie O'Connor. A boxing trainer for 20 years, Danny's concerns in his life are his gym, his boys, his gambling habit and making enough money to support all these things. He has got his hands in just about everything, from debt collecting to nightclub security, from racketeering to protection schemes. His habit has landed him in trouble and now that the Collins crew are calling the debt, Danny is one throw of the dice away from gambling his last.
2004
Danny West runs his own gym in Shoreditch where he trains Eddie O'Connor, his best friend. Due to getting in trouble with gambling, Danny became in debt to the Collins crew. Because of this, he needed to get a hold of some money fast. After discussing the matter with Jimmer Collins, Danny arranged a team together so that they could rob the Skobel bank and get a hold of some credit card codes for Jimmer. Danny's team consisted of: Eddie and another fighter called, Errol, who would act as the muscle of the team. There was also Arthur, the safe cracker, John, the cleaner and Sam Thompson, the hacker. Danny also had Sleeves, a young boy who regularly visited the gym, to get his mum to help make bank guard uniforms for the job. When the job went wrong however, Arthur and Eddie were captured and taken back to a construction site where they were tortured for information. Arthur gave up the whereabouts of John before being killed by Alexei, the torturer of the gang. Alexei then questioned John before killing him and John gave up Danny's whereabouts, telling Alexei that he was responsible for the theft of the icon. Alexei told his boss, Viktor Skobel, the leader of the gang and owner of the bank the crew had robbed, this information. Viktor, Yuri, a loyal heavy of his and some of his men went to the gym to confront Danny. However, when they arrived, the Collins crew were already there and had come to collect their debt money from Danny.
Death
Jimmer Collins and his men then engaged in a shootout with the Russians. Viktor and Yuri escaped while their men continued to shoot it out with the Collins crew. Jimmer also managed to escape when Mitch and his team arrived later in order to clean up the mess. Jimmer witnessed Viktor murder Danny by shooting him in the Shoreditch gym massacre and would later unintentionally reveal this to Eddie.
Aftermath
After hearing about Danny's death, Eddie swore to avenge his best friends' death, who at the time he believed was Jimmer Collins. When Eddie tracked Jimmer down however, Alexei and Yuri had already come for him and Jimmer told them that Viktor had killed Danny at the gymnasium and that Eddie, a boxer who worked for Danny, probabaly had the icon. Eddie overheard the whole conversation and realised he had been chasing the wrong man. Yuri then killed Jimmer and Eddie followed him in order to kill Viktor. In the finale of the game, Eddie finally avenged Danny's death by killing Viktor and finishing off the Thieves in Law for good.
Mission Appearances
- Shoreditch Boys (dead body)
- The Latvian Cowboy (dead body)
- Monday (first chronological appearance)
- The Rescue (flashback)
- The Wake of the Shoreditch Massacre (dead body)
- This Geezer, Hector (flashback)
Trivia
- Danny was Eddie's best friend and boxing trainer.
- When Eddie found out about what happened to Danny, Eddie lost control and wanted to take revenge on whoever was responsible. This happens in the mission, The Wake of the Shoreditch Massacre.