A LEADING international criminal profiler has dubbed the Scissor Sisters killing as one of the most macabre crimes ever carried out.

Linda Mulhall has lost a bid to bring a Supreme Court challenge to her 15-year sentence for killing her mother's boyfriend.

THERE was growing anger among victims’ rights groups last night after it emerged convicted wife killer Eamonn Lillis could walk free from prison as early as 2015.

THE sentence handed down for the killing of Celine Cawley was influenced by two notorious cases: Wayne O’Donoghue and Linda Mulhall.

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.

THE heartbroken parents of murdered teenager Raonaid Murray yesterday urged the public to bring her killer to justice and criticised what they said was “misleading” media coverage of the case.

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.

The eldest brother of convicted killers, Charlotte and Linda Mulhall, has been jailed for robbing two shops at knifepoint for money for food for his children and the children of his jailed sister Linda.

LINDA MULHALL, jailed along with her sister for their part in the killing of their mother’s boyfriend, yesterday lost her appeal against the severity of her 15-year sentence.

An international stenography company employed by An tSeirbhis Chuirte was criticised at the Central Criminal Court today by Mr Justice Paul Carney who said it should apologise to prisoners awaiting sentence.

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.

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.

AN ATTEMPT to smuggle a mobile phone inside a candle into prison was intercepted last week.

A skull discovered by a woman in her back garden is around 100 years old, gardaí revealed today.

Tests are being carried out today on a human skull found wrapped in a plastic bag at the rear of a rented house in south Dublin yesterday.

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.

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.

GARDAÍ are trying to build up a case against the mother of two women found guilty last week of brutally killing her boyfriend.

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.

One of two Dublin sisters accused of murdering an African man who’s headless and dismembered body was found in the Royal Canal, told gardaí how she hit him with a hammer after her sister cut his throat with a Stanley blade, a jury at the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A friend of an African man who’s dismembered and headless body was pulled from the Royal Canal in Dublin last year, has claimed he saw the deceased man on the day of the alleged murder in the company of three women.

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 woman who was being questioned over the death of a Somalian man whose headless body was found in Dublin’s Royal Canal was today released from Garda custody.

Gardaí investigating the death of a Somalian man, whose headless body was found in Dublin’s Royal Canal, were questioning a 50-year-old woman today after they charged another person with his murder.