Sisters face sentencing over killing
Charlotte Mulhall, aged 23, and her older sister Linda, aged 31, will find out this morning their punishment for causing the violent death of 38-year-old Farah Swaleh Noor from Kenya.
At the end of a 10-day trial in October, a jury of six men and six women found Charlotte Mulhall guilty of murdering Mr Noor. Linda Mulhall was earlier found guilty of his manslaughter.
The court heard evidence of how the two sisters had attacked Mr Noor, in their mother’s inner city flat, with a hammer and blade before cutting up his body in the bathroom and disposing of it in several locations around Dublin.
They claimed their mother, Kathleen Mulhall, aged 54, had pleaded with them to kill her boyfriend, Mr Noor, after the four had returned to her home at the end of a day-long drinking session in Dublin city centre. The mother had previously complained she had been threatened and physically abused by Mr Noor.
Both women, who have been dubbed “the Scissor Sisters” by tabloid media, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of Mr Noor.
However, they had admitted in a series of statements to gardaí that they were involved in the killing of Mr Noor at their mother’s home at Richmond Cottages, Ballybough, on March 20, 2005.
Kathleen Mulhall, who is also wanted for questioning by gardaí, disappeared after the murder and is believed to be living in England.
