10 women serving life prison sentences in Ireland

Scissor sister, Charlotte Mulhall, 32, and killer waitress, Marta Herda, 29, are just two of 10 women serving life sentences in Ireland.

10 women serving life prison sentences in Ireland

Figures provided by Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald, show that just 10 — or under 3% — of the 352 prisoners serving life sentences are women.

Nine of the 10 female ‘lifers’ are at the Dochas prison, on the Mountjoy campus, with the remaining female serving her term at Limerick prison.

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