Victims of one of Scotland’s most violent domestic abusers told of their despair yesterday after being informed that
his sentence had been cut.
Musclebound personal trainer Mikie McCash was convicted last December of an eight-year reign of terror involving four victims, and jailed for three years.
But the Scottish Courts Service has now told victims that his prison term has been reduced to 27 months, with a supervision order cut to one year from two.
One of the women told the Record: “Honestly I just feel broken, and like he’s won."
McCash, 28, pled guilty to 13 charges involving four young victims. He admitted spitting on, headbutting and punching women, stuffing socks down their throats, choking them, and in one case putting a pillow over a victim’s face.
One woman was rushed to A&E after McCash bent her arm so far back that a “crack” was heard. He held a knife to the throats of two women and threatened to kill another by crashing a car.
McCash hurled a mobile phone at a victim with such force that it left an imprint on her face, and another savage attack was only stopped when his own father intervened.
He originally faced 26 charges of violence, traumatic intimidation and abuse.
The victim said: “He’ll be celebrating that he won the last blow, and that hurts more than anything. I don’t think any woman is safe while he’s free. I don’t think he’ll change.
“He made a guilty plea and already got less time than he deserved. How does he get to win again?”
Another of his “devastated” victims said: “This is the reason so many people don’t come forward against their abusers.
“His sentence should have been bigger from the outset.
“He’s taken time from us that we’ll never get back, years, and he should serve the same sentence we had to. Our ‘win’ is so tainted to me now.”
McCash attacked his victims at addresses in Dundee between 2008 and 2016.
Sheriff Thomas Hughes described his offending as “horrific” and “appalling”, then reduced his sentence from four years to three because of his early guilty plea.
