WARNING DISTURBING: Andy Cash killed his sister Lisa, 18, and eight-year-old twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley in a harrowing attack at their Dublin home in which he knifed them hundreds of times
A triple murderer who knifed his three siblings to death was seen laughing and dancing with family and friends at a party just hours before the horror killings.
Andy Cash, 26, brutally killed his sister Lisa, 18, and eight-year-old twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley, inside their Dublin home in September 2022. He pleaded guilty to the triple murder on Tuesday.
In harrowing footage, Cash can been seen dancing to Tina Turner song The Best with a can in his hand. The killer, seen wearing a dark blue shirt and jeans, danced by himself as other people spoke to one another in the background.
He then could be seen speaking about family members in a way that made others feel uncomfortable, The Sun reported. Cash left the gathering, held on the one-year anniversary of a relative’s passing, and travelled in a taxi to Rossfield Avenue in Tallaght, in southwest Dublin.
“Cash was at the gathering but no one there could have ever imagined what he was going to do,” an unnamed source told the outlet. “A video which appeared on social media on the night showed him dancing and appearing calm. Within just a few hours, he had murdered his three siblings in the most brutal manner.”
The vile killer then knifed his siblings in a harrowing attack. Lisa had been watching Netflix while Chelsea and Christy were asleep in bed. A post mortem revealed Lisa endured 71 slash and stab injuries to her face, neck, chest and limbs. Christy sustained 107 sharp force injuries and Chelsea was knifed and slashed 65 during the sickening attack.
Following the killing, Cash told the taxi driver to call 999. But when police arrived, Cash threw a TV out of a top floor window and then proceeded to dangle the lifeless body of his brother, before dropping him down onto the ground below.
In a heart wrenching victim statement, the family said: “Our three innocent children were viciously taken from us and that was the day the world stopped turning. What is left is our broken family and every day since has been unbearable. We miss everything about them, hearing their voices, their laughs, the conversations we would have, the games we would play as a family, the hugs and kisses that we won’t ever get from them again.”
The family added: “The only thing that hurts more than losing them is knowing how much they have missed out on, how they never got to finish school with their friends or learn how to drive a car or get the chance to see the world. It’s not just what was taken from us that hurts, it’s how their whole lives were taken from them, before they even had a chance to live them.
“Lisa, Christy and Chelsea deserved so much more from life, they deserved to grow old and live their lives however they would have chosen to and to have families of their own. They were the most beautiful, kind, and loving children in the world. We will cherish every memory made with them and love and miss them forever.” In Ireland, murder carries a mandatory life sentence.