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Gardaí is on alert after a violent Dublin criminal who was involved in the horrific assault and false imprisonment of an 89-year-old woman was released from jail.
he Irish independent may reveal that serial offender Michael Cash (28) is back on the streets after serving just four and a half years behind bars.
In 2017, she was given an eight-year prison sentence for the violent robbery at Bray’s home of Eva Sutton, who was tied up with dog leashes and beaten during a 90-minute trial.
The court also heard Cash and his accomplice claim they were in the IRA and threatened to shoot the widow during the horrific crime.
Michael Cash, of Ashlawn Park in Ballybrack, pleaded guilty to false imprisonment, assault and robbery at Ms. Sutton’s home on September 15, 2015.
His 10-year jail sentence was suspended for two years and pushed back to May 2016, but it has now emerged that the violent bully left Midlands prison this morning.
He appeared in court on separate charges last year, where evidence was presented that his release date was Christmas Eve 2020, and he escaped from more prison time.
A source said: “This raid did not happen once for Cash, he has a long history of robberies and the concern is that he will connect with criminal associates in North Wicklow and South Dublin and get involved in crime again. Gardaí will certainly be watching him. “
Michael Cash has nearly 100 prior convictions, including nearly 30 for burglary and burglary, and served his sentence in Midlands prison, where he was in improved prisoner status.
This despite the fact that he has been disciplined at least 10 times behind bars and most of them for not providing a sample.
Last year Cash received a partially suspended jail sentence in Dublin Circuit Court for stealing a car, which meant he would face no more time in jail.
The court heard that he was due to be released later this year and that he was participating in support services at the prison for alcohol and substance abuse.
His youngest accomplice, Jamie O’Brien (26) of Bray, also received an eight-year prison sentence for the false imprisonment, assault and robbery of Ms. Sutton, but is not due to be released until 2022.
In sentencing the couple in July 2017, Judge Michael Walsh told the Wicklow Circuit Court that the attack on the widow was savage and amounted to “torture.”
He described Ms. Sutton as a “wonderfully independent woman” who had been able to take care of herself and live alone in her own home.
“This was savagely and brutally interrupted on the date in question,” he said.
Cash and O’Brien broke into Ms. Sutton’s home shortly before 5 a.m. and put her through a 90-minute test during which they tied her up, beat her and told her that they would kill or shoot her.
The retiree pleaded with the men to stop, but instead They kicked her in the chest and head, dragged her by the hair from room to room, and tied her up with dog leashes.
The elderly victim tried to call for help by pressing a panic button attached to her collar, but her attackers ripped the alarm from her neck.
They also beat her with their own cane and held it by the throat.
Both thugs also falsely claimed to be members of the IRA in a further attempt to threaten and intimidate her.
The attack left Ms. Sutton with broken ribs, a punctured lung, a broken nose, cuts to her face and legs, and severe bruising to her body.
The two thugs showed no mercy as they beat her, although at one point she told them, “I’m dying, I’m dying.”
After sentencing, Ms. Sutton’s daughter, Amanda, described the impact the attack had on her mother.
“Not an animal would do what they did. And then his defense team says he’s sorry for what he did. The moment to repent was when Gardaí was interviewing him. But he denied everything. Mom is small, she is only 5 feet. You could lean on her and she couldn’t move. So why did they have to do what they did? “
“Mom was so outgoing, she was a bit of a darling. She was a strong woman, but the attack really got to her,” Amanda Sutton told the Irish independent.
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