Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Serial abuser ‘put knife to my throat’
A WOMAN has described how serial domestic abuser Mikie McCash held a knife to her throat and told her she was “worth nothing”.
Personal trainer McCash, of Benvie Road, pleaded guilty to carrying out attacks on four women over an eightyear period at multiple addresses in the city.
The 28-year-old admitted to 13 charges on indictment, committed between 2008 and 2016.
The brute threatened to kill his first victim after holding a knife to her throat. She was also spat on and punched repeatedly before having her throat seized and socks shoved into her mouth. The attacks occurred between 2008 and 2011.
Now his first victim has spoken out and described her relationship with McCash, whom she met when she was 14.
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “The abuse started mentally and soon turned to physical and mental.
“I suffered a great deal at the hands of Mikie. Physically the marks heal but mentally they will always remain.
“He threatened to take my life while holding a knife to my throat, he threw a glass at me on multiple occasions that smashed into tiny pieces as they hit my body. He headbutted me and burst open my face.
“He choked me until I couldn’t breathe, he would shove socks down my throat to mask any noise I would make as he repeatedly punched my rib-cage. He would spit on me as I lay on the floor battered and bruised, telling me I was worth nothing.
“Mikie has never once apologised to me and for many years he claimed I was a liar.
“He has never admitted to any of his crimes up until Tuesday at court.
“He has never shown remorse for his actions that have now changed my life forever.”
Although she admits she will never get over the trauma of her ordeal at the hands of McCash, the victim did feel some sort of closure after his guilty plea.
She said: “The trauma I went through and have had to relive to finally see him plead guilty is too great to explain. I did feel some sort of closure up until I saw people still jumping to his defence despite everything it has taken for me and other victims to come forward.
“It’s disgusting, disrespectful and offensive to the victims to defend the man when he has never served a second of a sentence yet.
“No sentence will ever be long enough in my eyes, but I hope the judge thinks long and hard about what he’s done to us and sees past the act he’s playing.”