Abuser to be released after serving half of jail sentence

A SADISTIC abuser who brutalised four different women over several years is being released from prison less than halfway through his sentence.

Personal trainer Michael McCash, from Dundee, was jailed for three years in January last year after admitting a string of violent attacks on women.

Following an appeal, his prison term was reduced from 36 to 27 months, with a supervision order cut to one year from two.

Now the Tele can reveal he is to be released from prison on January 29 after serving just over 12 months of his already reduced sentence.

One of his victims, who asked to remain anonymous, said she had received a letter from the Scottish Prison Service under the victim notification scheme notifying her that McCash is to be released on January 29.

The letter, seen by the Tele, stated he could be released up to two days earlier “if there was clear evidence it would help his reintegration into the community”.

The victim, one of the four women named in the charges, said: “It’s absolutely outrageous he’s going to be walking the streets again next week.

“I think it’s a joke in all fairness. He pleaded guilty to the charges which resulted in a lesser sentence of 36 months, for violently attacking four women.

“He then went on to appeal that sentence having it reduced to 27 months, and is now released after only serving 13 months.

“This is why people don’t come forward about domestic violence, because they go through months or years building a case, reliving the trauma, for the court system to just slap you in the face.

“I don’t understand how you can plead guilty and admit to a crime but constantly have your sentence reduced.”

McCash repeatedly attacked four different women over an eight-year period at multiple addresses in the city.

He held knives to the throats of some of the women, and punched and spat on others.

The thug also threw a chair and mobile phone at one of his victims.

McCash, who co-founded the Let’s Talk Recovery group, also pulled on the handbrake of a car causing it to swerve, thereby endangering one woman’s life on Forfar Road.

“We as victims have a lifelong sentence, our lives are affected forever by the things he’s done,” said the woman.

“He has still never shown remorse, not even an apology has passed his lips,.

“I hope for the sake of other women and himself that he is rehabilitated but I don’t believe for a second it could be done in such a short space of time.

“The system has failed us all massively. I’m not afraid of seeing him any more and I won’t let him control my life or thoughts a second longer than he already has in the past.”

McCash was initially told he would be supervised for two years following his release and he was issued with non-harassment orders banning him from contacting his four victims for 10 years.

But he will now only be subject to supervision for 12 months after the appeal judge’s ruling.