10 YEARS FOR STAB KILLING OF BRO-IN-LAW IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
■ Victim John Cash stabbed to death in front of his wife ■ Killer Andy Cash believed victim made him a cuckold
Giving evidence at his own trial, Andrew Cash said he had a knife in his car that he would use to fix the car radio. He said he took the knife with him because he “wanted to confront” John Cash.
CCTV from the scene showed John Cash backing away from the defendant before falling over and being struck repeatedly by Andrew Cash.
John Cash got up from that assault and made his way across the road where the final assault took place while Elizabeth tried to intervene to protect her husband.
In evidence, Andrew Cash said that the deceased told him he would come to his house later, which the defendant took to be a threat that he would come to his house for a row.
He said he “snapped” after hearing this and stabbed the deceased.
During the trial, Andrew
Cash’s lawyers told the jury if the accused was so provoked by the alleged threat made by John
Cash that he suffered a sudden and total loss of self-control, then he should be found guilty of manslaughter and not murder.
A pathologist told the trial John Cash had suffered two stab wounds.
The fatal wound was to the chest and went to a depth of eight centimetres and penetrated the heart.
In a victim impact statement, John Cash’s sister Brigid said her brother loved animals, collected stray dogs and would never pass a homeless person without giving them food or money. She described him as a “gentle giant with a big heart”.
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Margaret Cash described her brother as a “rock” and a father figure to her two children.
Speaking outside court, Brigid said the family were “devastated” by what happened to their brother.
She said they were unhappy with the verdict of manslaughter.
“My brother got no justice this morning,” Brigid said. “We just love him so much and we go through the pain and hurt every day of losing him.
“Every day we are expecting John to walk back in the door in his aul’ jolly laughy way. We will never see that again…If there’s a heaven up there, we will meet again but for now we will live with the pain for the rest of our lives.”