I couldn’t see my brother sentenced for killing my husband as I was in prison
Widow says sibling should have got a longer jail term
A WOMAN whose husband was killed by her brother says she was devastated to miss his sentencing hearing as she was in prison.
Andy Cash was jailed this week for 10 years for the manslaughter of his brother-in-law John “Johnny” Cash, 40, who he stabbed to death in 2022.
Elizabeth Cash said she is deeply upset that her brother only got 10 years for killing her husband.
She added: “I wasn’t at the court to be honest because I was in prison.
“I was upset to miss it but they asked me if they could go ahead with the hearing without me and I said yes because the kids have been through enough.
“I was very upset that he didn’t get what we expected him to get. Ten years is nothing for killing someone.”
Having already served two years in prison, Andy Cash could be freed within five and a half years, due to time served and standard remission with good behaviour.
Elizabeth was sentenced to five months in prison in December for driving without insurance and failing to produce a licence and was banned from driving for 12 years.
She was granted temporary release but failed to sign on and was sent back to prison for a week, missing the sentencing hearing of her killer brother on Monday.
Elizabeth said she is glad to now be back out for her children and begin to move on from the tragic death of her husband.
She continued: “We are upset that [Andy] didn’t get more but in one way we’re glad it’s over. He should have got life. Or even 15 years.
“Me and my family are disappointed with it. I’d be concerned now about when he gets out, which could be in just five-and-a-half years’ time.”
Elizabeth said her brother Andy is now dead to her and that she is so nervous about his eventual release that she is moving to a new location.
GUILTY Andy Cash was jailed on Monday She added: “I would be afraid of him. I am afraid of the day he gets out. I have to get a different house and everything and not tell anyone where I’m living.
“He’s not my brother anymore. He killed the father of my kids and my husband.
“I don’t care what happens to him now to be honest. I just pity my father and my mother. They are the only ones I feel sorry for.”
Elizabeth added that any apology from her brother now would “mean nothing to me,” and said she is “still grieving every day” over her husband. In an exclusive interview with this paper when her brother was convicted last November, Elizabeth opened up about how her brother believed her husband had had an affair with his wife, which sparked the incident.
Elizabeth told us: “Ten years ago my husband went down to the pub and Andy’s wife was in the pub.
“Ever since that he just had that bitterness against my husband. My husband swore to me in the chapel that he hadn’t got anything to do with his wife.
“But that was in Andy’s head. My husband wasn’t with her but even if he was that still doesn’t mean you kill somebody.
“I never thought it would get that serious.
“I never thought he’d use a knife to be honest.”
She also told us at the time how she witnessed the entire ordeal and how her husband died in front of her.
She said: “When my husband was on the ground and he was dying he told me that he couldn’t breathe.
“His lungs were filling up. There were people there that gave me a bottle of coke and I used it to wet his lips but he didn’t drink it.”
Passing sentence on Monday, Ms Justice Creedon said there was evidence of “some history” between the two men because Andy Cash believed the deceased had been intimate with his wife, “although the veracity of that was not established.”
I’d be concerned about when he gets out, which could be in just five-and-a-half years ELIZABETH CASH SPEAKING TO IRISH MIRROR YESTERDAY