The mother of the notorious 'Scissor Sisters' today broke down sobbing as lawyers pleaded for leniency over her role in covering up the gruesome killing of her African boyfriend.

THE mother of the notorious Scissor Sisters could face up to 10 years behind bars for covering up the brutal murder of her African boyfriend.

MIXING between male and female inmates at the country’s largest prison campus has been suspended indefinitely following fresh concerns over inappropriate behaviour by some convicted criminals.

THERE is something rotten in our prison service. This week mobile phone pictures were published of murderer Charlotte Mulhall — one of the infamous Scissors Sisters — jokingly holding a carving knife to the throat of drug offender Denis Gibney in Mountjoy.

The opposition has expressed concern about the emergence of a photograph showing convicted murderer Charlotte Mulhall jokingly holding a knife to a man's throat in Mountjoy Prison.

The Irish Prison Service has launched an investigation after a picture emerged showing one of the Mulhall sisters joking with a knife inside Mountjoy Prison.

BRINGING up a baby girl in a prison is far from ideal. Especially when mother and child will eventually be separated, perhaps for years.

Killer Charlotte Mulhall today lost an appeal against her conviction for the gruesome murder of her mother’s African boyfriend.

THE Court of Criminal Appeal has fixed March 11 next to hear the appeal by Charlotte Mulhall against her conviction for the murder of her mother’s boyfriend, whose body was cut up and parts dumped in the Royal Canal in Dublin.

THE mother of the so-called “Scissor Sisters” Linda and Charlotte Mulhall appeared in court yesterday charged in connection with the murder of her Kenyan boyfriend.

The mother of the so-called "Scissor Sisters" appeared in court today charged in connection with the murder of her African boyfriend.

The mother of two women convicted of killing her Kenyan boyfriend is tonight in garda custody in connection with his death.

A DECISION in an appeal brought by Dublin woman Linda Mulhall to have her 15-year sentence reduced for the manslaughter of her mother’s boyfriend, whose body was cut up and dumped, has been put off until the new year.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the challenge by Linda Mulhall to her 15-year-sentence for the manslaughter of her mother's boyfriend.

A Dublin woman jailed for 15 years for killing her mother's boyfriend and dumping his body parts in the Royal Canal, will appeal against her sentence today.

GARDAÍ suspect a 100-year-old human skull found in a Dublin garden may have been placed there in the last two or three years.

NEW research on babies living behind prison bars with their mothers has recommended a special unit be set up in Irish jails.

ONE of the Dublin sisters jailed for killing and dismembering their mother’s African boyfriend has lodged an appeal with the Court of Criminal Appeal against her 15-year sentence.

SOCIAL workers are assessing the possibility of murderer Charlotte Mulhall caring for her infant boy behind bars temporarily.

IT WAS the jersey of an Irish away strip worn by Farah Swaleh Noor on the day he died that provided the vital clue in helping gardaí to identify the victim whose headless torso and other body parts were found floating in the Royal Canal on March 30 last year.

Dublin woman, Charlotte Mulhall, who bludgeoned her mother’s African boyfriend to death and cut up his body, was today jailed for life.

Two women who killed their mother’s African lover will be sentenced today.

TWO Dublin sisters are to be sentenced today by the Central Criminal Court over their roles in the gruesome killing of their mother’s African boyfriend, whose dismembered and headless body was found in the Royal Canal last year.

OUTDATED laws on prostitution need radical reform to ensure pimps and punters are punished rather than prostitutes, The Rape Crisis Network Ireland (RCNI) said yesterday.

One of the sisters who callously murdered their mother’s African lover before hacking him to pieces and dumping bits of his body around Dublin was today convicted of prostitution.

A substantial reward was paid to a person who helped solve the case of the murdered African man whose decapitated body was found in Dublin's Royal Canal, it was confirmed today.

The jury in the “headless body in the canal” murder trial was sent to a hotel for a third night tonight as the trial judge was told its members had come to a deadlock.

The jury has risen to consider its verdict in the trial of two Dublin sisters accused of murdering their mother’s boyfriend before disposing of his dismembered and headless body in the Royal Canal.

The jury in the trial of two Dublin sisters accused of murdering their mother’s boyfriend, before disposing of his dismembered body in the Royal Canal will rise to consider its verdict tomorrow at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of two Dublin sisters accused of murdering their mother’s boyfriend before disposing of his dismembered body in the Royal Canal has reached its final stages at the Central Criminal Court.

The former partner of a Kenyan man who’s dismembered and headless body was pulled from the Royal Canal has claimed he raped her on an almost daily basis and she feared he might kill her.

The trial of two sisters accused of murdering a Kenyan man has heard that their mother who was going out with him had attended a number of hospitals with a history of assault.

The younger of two Dublin sisters accused of murdering and chopping up their mother’s boyfriend told gardaí that their mother told them “please just kill him for me", and gave them a knife and hammer, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

The younger sister of two Dublin women on trial for the murder of an African man who’s headless body was found in the Royal Canal in Dublin last year, has claimed she was told the deceased tried to rape one of the accused.

Two Dublin sisters have gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of an African man who’s dismembered and headless body was pulled from the Royal Canal in Dublin last year.

Two Dublin sisters have denied the murder of a Somalian man, who’s dismembered body was found in the Royal Canal in Dublin last year.

A jury for the trial of two Dublin sisters charged with the murder of a Somalian man, whose dismembered body was found in the Royal Canal in Dublin last year, is now expected to be sworn in on Monday.

A 22-year-old unemployed woman was charged today with the murder of a Somali man whose dismembered body was found floating in the Royal Canal in Dublin.