A date has been set for the trial of Kathleen Mulhall in connection with the death of her Kenyan boyfriend in Dublin four years ago.

Detectives probing the death of a man believe he may have been involved in a brawl more than two weeks earlier, it emerged today.

Gardaí in Dublin have issued an appeal for witnesses in connection with the death of Bernard Larkin earlier this month.

The mother of the so-called “Scissor Sisters” appeared in court today to face nine new charges in connection with the murder of her African boyfriend.

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 brother of the Mulhall sisters, who killed their mother’s African boyfriend in March 2005, has been sentenced to two years in prison for robberies he committed while wielding a knife.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

The mother of a Somalian national, whose headless corpse was discovered in Dublin’s Royal Canal, may travel to Ireland to aid the garda investigation into her son’s death, it emerged today.