Domestic abuser who fled to Thailand jailed
Nicholas Cash had set up a new life and married a Thai woman before he was arrested last year.
Domestic abuser who fled to Thailand jailed
A man who ran to Thailand before he could stand trial over “despicable” domestic abuse offences has been jailed.
Nicholas Cash, 26, was convicted in his absence at Bournemouth Crown Court in February 2023 of offences including coercive control, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and criminal damage.
He received an eight-year prison sentence and was arrested in Thailand in December 2025.
Judge Jonathan Fuller KC later handed Cash, who was tearful, an extra 16 months behind bars, bringing the total sentence to nine years and four months.
That additional prison time was imposed for breaching his court bail and for violating the conditions of a suspended sentence in 2021 for further domestic abuse against another victim.
The father-of-three, who appeared by video link from HMP Bullingdon in Oxfordshire, is married to a Thai woman, the court heard.
He was extradited back to the UK in the last few weeks before his court case.
The judge said Cash had embarked on “a deliberate and determined attempt to evade justice” and had planned never to return to the UK.
Ruby Shrimpton, defending, said Cash’s time in a Thai prison after his arrest last year had been “hell on earth”.
Det Con Michael White, of Dorset Police, who led the latest police investigation into Cash, previously said he carried out “the most despicable psychological, emotional and physical abuse”.
He added that it was “incredible” to be able to tell his victim last December that Cash had been caught.
The arrest came after work by the National Crime Agency, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Royal Thai Police.
“It was like the best Christmas present they could have – that they’d finally found him and arrested him. It was amazing,” he said.
“We do take [domestic abuse] seriously. We had a young girl here who was a victim of controlling and coercive behaviour and, however she gets on with her life, she will always remember this.
“It’s very important to me that justice is served.”
He added: “[Cash] put his own welfare before her or anyone else and I think that’s very selfish.”