Former partner’s ‘chilling warning to couple’
Jealous thug’s threat to ex-partner and new boyfriend
A‘ VIOLENT’ and jealous thug who threatened to kill his ex-partner and new boyfriend and ‘walk into the police station with both their heads in a carrier bag’ has been given the chance to avoid jail.
Colin McCash, from Accrington, sent hundreds of abusive text messages and calls to his ex-partner over a threemonth period earlier this year after their relationship ended, a court heard.
Prosecutor Mercedes Jabbari said when the 41-year-old gym owner was told by his ex-partner in March that she had started seeing another man he took the news ‘particularly badly’ and said he was going to “cut the other man up, petrol bomb his house and kill him”.
In one incident McCash was spotted in a parked car outside the victim’s home watching her house.
Preston Crown Court heard McCash continued to send abusive messages to his ex-partner and, after being given an ultimatum to stop, started messaging her sister and mother instead.
On April 7, McCash attended ex-partner’s home in a ‘ bad mood’ and was ‘ swinging his arms around’. He then banged on her door and shouted through the letter box before saying “I’m going to kill you”.
Two days later the defendant posted comments on Facebook saying “You f****** slag. You’re out to rattle my cage. Wait until I get hold of you. It’s over for him. I’ll leave you both in the bed I find you.”
Ms Jabbari said McCash then contacted her mother saying “F*** the police. I will be walking into the police station with both their heads in a carrier bag.”
On May 2, McCash spat in the face of his expartner after she went round to his gym to collect their daughter.
McCash said he had “people waiting to chop up the male she had been speaking with to bits” and that he would “smash her car and house up”. The court heard how McCash and his ex-partner then had a confrontation in the street before a bystander offered to call the police.
When the victim got into her car McCash broke the door handle before she drove off ‘scared and concerned’.
On July 12, McCash sent a picture message to his ex-partner saying “Is this the big dumpling that fancies his chances?”
The court heard how the picture showed the victim speaking to someone in a supermarket five days earlier and she was left ‘unnerved’.
McCash then sent her 119 messages over a fiveday period in July.
In a victim impact statement, the court was told that the ex-partner is ‘scared of [McCash] and wants to get on with her life but feels like he won’t let her’.
McCash, of Spencer Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment and one count each of criminal damage and assault by beating.
Defence barrister Alison Whalley said McCash had an ‘unenviable criminal record’ and a pre-sentence report which makes ‘very poor reading’.
The court heard that in the report the defendant ‘denies spitting and denies damage’ and ‘thinks what he did wasn’t the crime of the century’.
Ms Whalley said: “He knows that if he denies the offences then he really shouldn’t have pleaded guilty to them.
“I have advised in relation to his options and he doesn’t wish to vacate his plea.
“Other people will be hugely disadvantaged by him being incarcerated.”
Judge Philip Parry said he would defer sentence to December 20 and would suspend any prison term if McCash kept out of trouble and didn’t contact his expartner.
He said: “Your behaviour was appalling. You threatened to kill and cut up the person [his expartner] was then seeing.
“On many occasions you made threats to kill him and kill her.
“It’s pretty awful and your response to it is to minimise it. You don’t appear to be particularly contrite about what you did. I just do not think that you grasp how serious harassment of this kind is to people on the receiving end of it.
“You are a violent man and she has reasons to be fearful of you. Your antecedent record shows that time and time you are willing to engage in violence.
“Despite what you have done in the past, those who provide you with references all talk of you as being a very different man.
“They could be talking about a different person.”