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in Dublin in 2005 two sisters Linda and
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Charlotte mhal went out with their
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mother Kathleen and her partner Farah
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swall
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no it was St Patrick's weekend Linda
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Charlotte Kathleen and Farah were all
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out drinking in Dublin City Center
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during a disagreement that escalated the
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mhall sisters brutally killed Farah
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this is a a scene of frenzied violence
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involving two women who were very high
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and intoxicated on drugs with alcohol it
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was a really violent and manic attack
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Charlotte and Linda then dismembered
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Farah before discarding his body parts
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like
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rubbish the violence Meed out on Farah
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was way way more than was necessary to
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kill him this is what we call
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Overkill it's
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gratuitous the press dubb the siblings
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the Scissor
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Sisters it was directly as a result of
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the way that the body was mutilated and
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cut up into
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pieces this is the most violent attack
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you can
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imagine the mhall sisters had cemented
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their place in history as two of the
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world's most evil killers
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in Dublin in March
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2005 a passer by noticed something
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unusual floating in the Royal Canal
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didn't know quite what it was and when
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it was retrieved it was found to be a
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leg and the sock was still on
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it as the canal was being searched by
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specialist teams more body parts were
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discovered the man was identified as
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40-year-old Kenyan National Farah swali
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no and the last known sighting of him
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was with his partner Kathleen and her
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daughters Charlotte and Linda
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mulle Kathleen and far went out drinking
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with Charlotte and Linda and it was
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reported that you know they couldn't
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even get in any of the pubs because of
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their
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behavior the four went back to Kathleen
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and Farah's flat where an argument broke
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out Farah was knocked out after falling
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back and hitting his head against a bed
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frame we've now got Noah on the floor
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unconscious Linda is hitting his head
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with a hammer and Charlotte is stabbing
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him in the Torso it's an absolutely
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frenzied attack of the worst kind of
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violence what the sisters did next would
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go on to shock the
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world these killer stories begin about
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10 km southeast of Dublin City Center
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Linda mhal was born in
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1975 and Charlotte was born in
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1984 Hall Sisters lived in tala County
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Dublin there's a lot of poverty in tala
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and particularly in the area that they
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come
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from they were a socially disadvantaged
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family they had a lot of problems
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growing up they were early School levers
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did also use drugs as teenagers and it
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took the wrong patter in
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life their parents Kathleen and John
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mhal didn't have a particularly stable
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marriage John is reported to have been
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an
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incredibly violent person and I think
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they they certainly witnessed violence
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against their their mother
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routinely I think Kathleen had a very
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checkered history herself with alcohol
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and drugs this was not any kind of
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conventional
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upbringing as a teenager Linda mhal
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followed a similar path
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Linda was known to take drugs misuse
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alcohol but every turn she had made
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wrong decisions in both her personal
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life and her education and she had I
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suppose entered her 20s as someone who
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was a very vulnerable person very
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disadvantaged
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person in
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1993 around the age of 18 Linda mhall
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began a relationship ship and went on to
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start a family but it didn't work out as
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planned Linda had been married and she
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had four children and that relationship
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ended and she uh became involved in a
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new
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relationship Linda began a romance with
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Wayne kinel a man with a history of
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criminal behavior and who had previously
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served time in prison for manslaughter
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he beat Linda and her
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children eventually he got seven years
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for child
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cruelty despite her personal struggles
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at times Linda mhal also found herself
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on the wrong side of the law Linda has
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one prior conviction for larcener in
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1993 she seemed to be someone who
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largely stayed away from the criminal
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courts Charlotte on the other hand had a
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number of minor convictions in her past
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from prostitution to criminal damage to
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public order
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offenses 9 years younger than Linda
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Charlotte had a reputation as being a
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Stern and dangerous character but that
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doesn't fit what she actually was I
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think that in some ways was a mask that
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she used to conceal her own
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vulnerability she was someone who had
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really no breaks in
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life their mother Kathleen is by no
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means stable either
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she's been beaten by her husband she's
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seen her children abused she's taken
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refuge in alcohol and
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drugs this is a horror show when it
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comes to a
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family in 2002 Kathleen mulhal met a man
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called Farah swali no he'd moved to
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Ireland from Africa but his Origins
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weren't as he'
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suggested far swall or was a Kenyan a
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man he was born in
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1965 and he came to this country under
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the guise of being a Somalian
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Refugee he had a story that his family
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had been
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murdered when the truth emerged Farah
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evaded deportation when it became known
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he'd fathered a child in Ireland and
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therefore had a right to
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stay during the time he was in Ireland
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between 1996 and 199 99 he raped a
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disabled 16-year-old girl who went on to
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have a
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child he had a relationship with a young
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woman in Cork who was only 16 he
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pretended to be 20 when of course he was
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a great deal older than 20 she too had a
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child she too was abused by Fara
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no this is a man with a very nasty
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streak indeed someone whom you would
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treat with great
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Kathleen Mulhall was still living with
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her husband when Farah became part of
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her life Farah and Nur met Kathleen
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while she was still married to John mhal
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they continued to have an affair
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together and eventually Kathleen left
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John to start a
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relationship she probably was delighted
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that this guy had some sort of interest
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in her I think he possibly had other
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reasons to be involved with her but they
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entered into a relationship he at one
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stage moved into the mulhal home forcing
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John mhal to move out for a period of
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time but eventually John mhal returned
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to the family home and Kathleen left her
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children to move to Cork with Farris
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Wallen
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or sadly for Kathleen the move with her
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new lover wasn't the Beautiful Romance
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she was probably hoping for after her
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turn turbulent marriage when they were
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in Cork it was clear to neighbors and
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all around them that he was very abusive
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towards Kathleen it actually led to a
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number of hospitalizations she had gone
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to hospital with blurred vision injuries
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to her wrist and her hands and she had
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fractured
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ribs less than two years after they
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started their relationship Kathleen mhal
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and Farah swy no move back to Dublin in
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September 2004 Farah and Kathleen moved
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back to
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Dublin and they seek uh help from the
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Asylum Seekers unit to get rehoused and
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she finds a small flat the flat they
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were given was in Dublin City Center and
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meant that Kathleen was once again
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living close to her daughters
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30-year-old Linda and 21-year-old
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Charlotte on a street adjacent to
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Dublin's Royal Canal on the 30th of
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March 2005 aart pass by on the canal
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footpath noticed something unusual in
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the
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water a member of the public uh noticed
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something floating in the Royal Canal
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and didn't know why didn't know quite
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what it
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was the object in the water looks
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similar to a human leg with the sock
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still on the foot but this was a busy
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City Center area so the chances of a
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dismembered body being posited there
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seemed highly unlikely the passer by
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assumed there was an innocent
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explanation they talk it was a mannequin
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that someone had dumped in the canal out
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on their walks and then we're kind of
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looking at this kind of wondering could
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it be a body and most people when they
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see something like that they they kind
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of they tend not to act on it because
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they don't believe what they're seeing
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themselves the emergency Services were
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called to investigate further and the
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object was retrieved from the canal it
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didn't take long to confirm that it was
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in fact a human leg guard or noticed
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that there has been a foul deed
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committed because here we have a
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leg uh and that's only uh the start of
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it as investigators searched the water
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they found more body parts from what
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appeared to be from the same person
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a male human torso was discovered but
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the head had been removed from the
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body effectively what they had was a
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series of body parts without a head and
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that gave rise to lots of different
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suspicions and theories as to what had
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happened to this
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man the body had been in the water for
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some time causing pigmentation to be
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lost from the
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skin the difficulty the guardi had was
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they couldn't even establish his
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ethnicity there was no head there was no
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way to identify the body parts this
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would have been quite a difficult case
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for the guardi to
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investigate a murder investigation
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immediately commenced because this
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wasn't an accident someone had tried to
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conceal a crime and it was quite clear
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the police arriving at the scene that
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the victim had been stabbed to death
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because his torso was quite heavily
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damaged and he'd been stabbed 27
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times the level of decomposition
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suggested that the person had died
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approximately one week earlier which
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would have been around St Patrick's Day
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weekend officers knew that a brutal
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murder had taken place but before they
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could start to look for the killer they
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would have to establish who the victim
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was one of the only Clues was what was
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found on the Torso a soccer jersey
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this torso still had the t-shirt on it
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you could take a a photograph of this
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t-shirt and circulate the photographs to
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see does anybody know anybody who's
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wearing a t-shirt like this and they are
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missing you haven't seen
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them it was a long shot but it was all
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the police had to go on at that stage
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they had to Hope Against All Odds that
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somebody would come forward with
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information and they appealed for anyone
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who had information or had encountered
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anyone who had been wearing this piece
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of clothing around St Patrick's state to
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come
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forward detectives investigating the
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case would have known that the chances
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of any information coming off the back
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of this appeal would be slim but on the
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9th of May there was a
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breakthrough a friend of Farah n who
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hasn't seen him recognizes a t-shirt
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that Noah was wearing the last time he
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saw him and the same t-shirt is on the
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Torso of the mutilated body that's
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discovered the body was confirmed as
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being that of Farah swali no Farah had
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been stabbed multiple times and then
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dismembered before his body parts were
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disposed of officers now knew the
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identity of the victim but now had to
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find out who was responsible for such a
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horrific and brutal murder the friend
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who'd identified Farah's t-shirt had
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also told officers who Farah had been
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with when he last saw him wearing it his
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partner Kathleen Mulhall and her two
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daughters Charlotte and
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Linda 20th of March 2005 it was St
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Patrick's weekend Linda Charlotte
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Kathleen and Farah were all out drinking
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Dublin City
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Center Linda Kathleen and Charlotte had
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ecstasy whereas faret remained only
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drinking kathle mhal had decided to put
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some crushed ecstasy into Faris wur
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drink so you had this bizarre situation
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where you had a mother her two daughters
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and the mother's young Lover from Africa
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walking around Dublin drinking and
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having consume some ecstasy and trying
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to work out what they were going to do
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for the rest of the day
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this isn't an ordinary group this is a
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group of people heavy drinkers heavy
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drug users and it was reported that he
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couldn't even get in any of the pubs
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because of their
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behavior the flat shared by Kathleen and
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Farah was within walking distance of the
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city center and unable to get into any
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bars they decided to take the party Back
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Home Instead arriving back at the the
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flat around 6:30
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p.m. it was quite a small cottage it had
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one small couch that could only
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comfortably sit two people so Linda was
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sitting down with Charlotte on her lap
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faraoh was sitting next to her and
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Kathleen was on the arm of the
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chair Farah kept arguing with Kathleen
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and was quite agitated at that
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time Linda and Charlotte had noticed
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that faraoh was looking at Linda in a
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kind of sexual way and started to make
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advances to her he started putting his
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arms around her started touching her
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inappropriately so Kathleen and
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Charlotte in fact both got very very
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angry with
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Farah she was resisting him telling him
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to get off and leave her
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alone at that point charlot jumped up
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and she St stated let go of my sister
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because Linda was trying to physically
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get away from
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him faroh's unwanted sexual advances
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towards his partner's daughter had
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caused tensions to rise dramatically
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within the group but rather than call
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for help Charlotte and Linda Mulhall
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decided to take the law into their own
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hands Charlotte the youngest picks up a
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Stanley knife from the kitchen
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and threatens s he's doesn't care and
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she stabs him in the neck with a
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standing knife she cuts an artery in his
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neck Farah stumbles then back into one
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of the
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bedrooms he hits his head against one of
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the beds he's knocked
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unconscious the sisters could have
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stopped there but instead they continued
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their brutal assaults on the
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incapacitated
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man Linda picks up a hammer hitting
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Farah in his head with such verocity and
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strength that actually had left Dent
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marks in the
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carpet Charlotte then receives a bread
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knife and she goes into the room and
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starts stabbing his back and his
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torso she punctures his lungs she
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perforates his liver this is the most
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violent attack you could imagine
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this is a scene of frenzied violence
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involving two women who were very high
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and intoxicated on drugs with alcohol
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and within the space of minutes he had
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been stabbed 27 times and he had
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suffered various types of injuries to
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his
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head their mom had not participated in
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the but certainly watched and screamed
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but not tried to stop it from happening
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and within the space of a few minutes
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they were suddenly found themselves
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confronted by a man who was dead and
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they didn't know what to
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do a day that had started out in fun and
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celebration had taken a dark turn
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40-year-old Farah swali no had been
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savagely killed in his own home by his
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partner's
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daughters the violence Meed out on Farah
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was way way more than was necessary to
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kill him and this is what we call
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Overkill it's
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gratuitous there's not many times that
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you will see that level of Rage coming
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from a woman the fact that it was two
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women the fact that it was rage filled
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and so violent makes this highly
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unusual here they were the three of them
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standing over a body and planning what
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they were going to do next
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Linda and Charlotte mhall had brutally
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killed Farah swall no stabbing him 27
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times and bludgeoning his skull with a
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hammer this was already a sickening act
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of violence but the sisters were about
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to take their behavior to an even more
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disturbing
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level far andur is dead the three women
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are confronted by what to do they know
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full well that they've killed him and
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they've killed him
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deliberately Farah had been unconscious
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yet the mhall sisters had continued with
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their fatal attack rather than called
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the
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authorities I think they may have been
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in a better position had they called the
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police and told the guarded that
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essentially this man was attempting to
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sexually assault my sister but I think
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it was the action and the quick response
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that they had afterwards which was to
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get rid of the body
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the scene could almost be described as
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being akin to a
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slaughterhouse it was blood on the uh
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floors on the walls there was parts of
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their victim's flesh all over their
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hands in a shocking move the women
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dragged Farah's lifeless body into the
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bathroom of the flat it's at this time
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that Linda and Charlotte decide to
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dismember faren or to do do this
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Charlotte used um a knife to try and
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dismember his his legs and his arms
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Linda used the hammer to try and
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dislocate his joints to make it
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easier finally separate no into eight
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parts but even more
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horrifying Linda decides that she's
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going to cut off no's penis it does if I
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belief actually but nevertheless it's
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true they take the head and put it in a
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suitcase the other body parts were put
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into separate bin bags ready to be
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removed from the flat it was around this
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time that the gravity of what the
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sisters had done started to kick in
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Linda and Charlotte decided then to call
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their father John mhal and tell them
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what
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happened he claims that he didn't
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believe it but he went went in couldn't
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see Farris wallor inside and then
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realized that there was a bin ler that
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looked as if it had been stuffed with
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various body parts leaning against the
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wall in the
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bathroom John Mall hurried out of the
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flat and vomited before telling the
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women he didn't want to be involved in
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the situation Charlotte and Linda mhal
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were left to deal with the consequences
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of their own actions they came came up
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with this idea to actually dump various
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body parts in the Royal Canal which was
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close to where Cathleen and Farah had
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lived Dublin's Royal Canal ran adjacent
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to the street where the murder had
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occurred where they just literally
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bagged their victim's remains and made
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their way to a canal and dump the body
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parts in the water
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course they placed the in a suitcase out
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in the back Garden it wasn't until the
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next morning at 11:00 a.m. they decided
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to um dispose of the
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head in a shocking act that showed a
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blatant disregard for what they'd done
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the night before Linda Charlotte and
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Kathleen left the flat at around 11:30
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a.m. with Farah's head in a bag and
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walked to the nearby shops on Summer
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Hill parade they went in for something
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to eat some breakfast I think and just
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cold hard calculators um the fact that
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there was a head in the bag and they
00:24:03
could just carry on as as
00:24:06
normal Linda and Charlotte eating
00:24:10
together they don't appear to be full of
00:24:13
guilt they don't even really appear to
00:24:16
be worried with the evidence of murder
00:24:19
that they have with
00:24:23
them the sisters finished eating their
00:24:25
breakfast then boarded a bus to Tal 12
00:24:29
km away still carrying Farah's head in a
00:24:33
bag can imagine there was quite a few
00:24:35
passengers on the bus and they they sat
00:24:37
down with the head in the bag and nobody
00:24:42
suspected a
00:24:44
thing they just went about their
00:24:47
business it gave the impression that
00:24:49
were're very casual killers that they
00:24:51
really had disassociated themselves
00:24:54
mentally from the acts that they've been
00:24:56
involved in and didn't care to much
00:24:59
about what they were doing at
00:25:01
all the sisters got off the bus in talor
00:25:05
and headed to the Sha Walsh Memorial
00:25:07
Park it was here they decided to dispose
00:25:11
of the head Charlotte digs a hole in the
00:25:15
park a secluded part and buries the head
00:25:18
in it Kathleen then takes the hammer and
00:25:22
the standing knife and throws them into
00:25:25
a lake in the park
00:25:28
after disposing of the body and burying
00:25:30
Farah's head Charlotte Linda and
00:25:33
Kathleen dedicated their attention to
00:25:36
cleaning the crime scene attempting to
00:25:38
remove all traces of their heinous act
00:25:42
it's impossible to clean a scene like
00:25:45
that where you're dealing with leashes
00:25:47
of blood have being spilled across the
00:25:49
walls and the floor you can't really
00:25:52
clean that uh without burning the
00:25:54
building to the ground but that wasn't
00:25:55
something that they taught too much
00:25:58
about the mhall sisters and their mom
00:26:02
probably thought their efforts would
00:26:03
leave them in the clear they had
00:26:06
disposed of the body cleaned the crime
00:26:09
scene and the victim hadn't had many
00:26:11
people around him paranur was alone in
00:26:15
Ireland he didn't have any family in
00:26:16
Ireland huge amount of friends so it
00:26:19
wouldn't have been clear to them that he
00:26:20
would been missing for quite some
00:26:23
time what the M holes couldn't have
00:26:26
expected when disposing of the body in
00:26:28
the canal was that it would be found so
00:26:32
soon with Farah's body identified and
00:26:35
the victim being link to the mle holes
00:26:37
the family were brought in for
00:26:40
questioning when Kathleen was questioned
00:26:42
by the guards she maintained that faraoh
00:26:44
was still alive Kathleen had been
00:26:46
telling people around her that Farah had
00:26:49
just disappeared or that he'd gone off
00:26:52
with another woman officers knew they'd
00:26:54
need more evidence to link the women to
00:26:57
the death of far far SW
00:26:59
no as one of the last people to be seen
00:27:02
with Farah and having been the person he
00:27:05
was living with Kathleen was of high
00:27:07
interest to the
00:27:10
police she'd now moved from the flat
00:27:13
where the murder happened to another
00:27:15
flat in the same building Kathleen
00:27:18
Mall's decision to move from the
00:27:20
location in her mind was a way of
00:27:24
putting distance between her and the
00:27:25
crime but it actually assisted the
00:27:28
investigation because they suddenly
00:27:31
found themselves with a possible scene
00:27:33
of crime that the prime suspect was no
00:27:37
longer resident in so it was much easier
00:27:41
to get forensic teams into that location
00:27:45
to start carrying out
00:27:47
tests but any DNA found in the property
00:27:51
would have to be analyzed a process that
00:27:53
wouldn't provide any potential evidence
00:27:56
for around 6 weeks on the 11th of July
00:27:59
another offering of information was
00:28:02
provided to
00:28:03
detectives guard received two separate
00:28:06
phone calls these phone calls wanted to
00:28:09
remain anonymous the guard decided to
00:28:11
meet with these two callers it turns out
00:28:13
that it was James and John mhal Jr both
00:28:16
who were remanded in custody in we feel
00:28:18
prison James and John mhal Jr were
00:28:22
Charlotte and Linda's Brothers Kathleen
00:28:25
had been to visit her sons in prison
00:28:27
after Mar's body was found and confessed
00:28:30
to them worried that their mother was
00:28:33
going to be wrongfully accused of murder
00:28:36
the brothers decided to contact the
00:28:39
police they confirmed that they believed
00:28:42
that the body that was found was that of
00:28:44
far andur and that he was in a
00:28:45
relationship with their
00:28:48
mother one of them came forward and told
00:28:51
the guardy that in fact it wasn't
00:28:54
Kathleen it was Linda and charlot
00:28:58
the mhall brothers also implicated their
00:29:01
father John mhal who their mother told
00:29:04
them was at the flat that night and by
00:29:08
the 3rd of August the police now had
00:29:10
enough information to arrest Charlotte
00:29:13
Linda Kathleen and John for questioning
00:29:17
girls denied all knowledge of Farris
00:29:20
demise they had no ideas they had no
00:29:22
clues to offer they they they were not
00:29:26
able to help the the guarden inquiries
00:29:29
DNA from the flat had now confirmed that
00:29:32
the blood was phoh but without further
00:29:35
proof for confessions they didn't have
00:29:38
enough to charge any of the mull holes
00:29:41
they had an idea that whatever crime had
00:29:45
been committed it was emanating from
00:29:47
this group of people whom when they who
00:29:50
were pretending not to know anything
00:29:53
about this but they were the last people
00:29:55
to see him
00:29:56
alive the pressure of the situation
00:29:59
became too much for Linda and on the
00:30:02
19th of August she contacted the police
00:30:05
and admitted her involvement Linda mhal
00:30:09
made a pretty Frank
00:30:11
confession I think she was a woman who
00:30:14
was haunted by the events of that night
00:30:17
and really wanted to get them off her
00:30:19
chest and she described in detail what
00:30:24
had
00:30:26
happened Linda's confession gave
00:30:28
officers an opportunity to arrest
00:30:31
Charlotte and attempt to get her account
00:30:34
of that
00:30:35
evening Charlotte told the guardi that
00:30:37
her and Linda had gone out and were out
00:30:39
till all hours of the morning she said
00:30:41
that when she returned she had seen
00:30:44
Farah's bloody body and that essentially
00:30:46
was implicating that Kathleen was
00:30:48
involved with it she said that Linda
00:30:50
told Kathleen that they will take care
00:30:52
of it they would take the
00:30:54
fall Charlotte claimed to police that
00:30:57
herself had Liv Linda had not been part
00:30:59
of the killing but that they had
00:31:01
dismembered the body the police had
00:31:04
Linda's detail confession but now
00:31:06
Charlotte was placing the blame back at
00:31:09
her mother's door in the flat where the
00:31:11
murder had taken
00:31:13
place and of course all Trails led to
00:31:18
cathl monal who had lived there and you
00:31:21
had this uh DNA contaminated crime scene
00:31:25
that she had left behind in a shocking
00:31:28
twist in the case Kathleen fled the
00:31:31
country in September 2005 and the police
00:31:35
were unable to locate her Charlotte was
00:31:38
insisting Kathleen was responsible for
00:31:40
the murder but Linda's confession to the
00:31:43
police had provided contradictory
00:31:46
evidence and the mhall sisters were
00:31:49
charged with Farah's murder charot and
00:31:52
Linda were arrested and they were
00:31:55
retained in custody uh until the
00:32:00
Trish after his daughters were charged
00:32:03
with the murder John mhal took his own
00:32:07
life John hangs himself in Phoenix
00:32:14
Park as the sisters awaited trial press
00:32:17
interest in the case grew and Linder and
00:32:20
Charlotte mhall were given the nickname
00:32:23
the Scissor
00:32:26
Sisters the name the Scissor Sisters was
00:32:29
coined by the media and it was directly
00:32:33
as a result of the way that the body was
00:32:36
mutilated and cut up into
00:32:41
pieces the trial of Charlotte and Linda
00:32:44
Mulhall began on the 9th of October 2006
00:32:49
at Dublin Central Criminal
00:32:51
Court you have two sisters who are about
00:32:54
to stand trial for the murder of faran
00:32:59
they both plead not guilty even though
00:33:02
Linda has confessed to the
00:33:05
police the jury were presented with a
00:33:08
tough decision to make about the
00:33:11
case it was a very unique case you had a
00:33:14
victim who had predated on women for his
00:33:17
entire adult life and then you had two
00:33:21
women that kill this guy in a moment of
00:33:24
Madness while drunken on drugs and I
00:33:27
think that caused a lot of difficulties
00:33:29
for the jury because it wasn't really a
00:33:32
black and white
00:33:33
case Charlotte and Linda had been
00:33:36
charged with murder but at trial the
00:33:38
defense team asked that Linda be tried
00:33:41
for manslaughter due to her actions
00:33:43
being a reaction to Farah's Behavior
00:33:47
they were basing their defense on the
00:33:48
fact that faroh was trying to um make
00:33:51
sexual Advan towards her very much
00:33:53
unwanted sexual Advan towards Linda so
00:33:56
they use the defense of provocation
00:33:58
in an attempt to save their mother
00:34:01
Kathleen from being blamed two of her
00:34:03
sons had contacted the police with
00:34:06
information about the night in question
00:34:09
implicating their sisters Charlotte and
00:34:11
Linda for the murder one of the girl's
00:34:14
sisters had also provided the police
00:34:17
with a
00:34:18
revelation one of their sisters tells
00:34:21
the police that Charlotte when drunk one
00:34:23
night has confessed to The Killing
00:34:26
too the process ecution also had Linda's
00:34:29
original
00:34:31
confession they had made statements
00:34:34
incriminating themselves they had family
00:34:36
members willing to come in and give
00:34:38
evidence in very difficult circumstances
00:34:41
for those people and give evidence
00:34:44
against the loved ones in their own
00:34:46
family the pathologist would have come
00:34:48
into court and would have given the jury
00:34:50
insight into all of the injuries that he
00:34:53
received I think there was some
00:34:54
suggestion that it was there was no
00:34:56
defensive wounds that this was priz
00:34:58
attack to
00:35:00
Farah evidence against the mhall sisters
00:35:03
was stacking up against them they would
00:35:06
have had statements in relation to
00:35:08
everyone who identified Farah from his
00:35:11
body so his friend who would noticed his
00:35:13
jersey that he was wearing that day and
00:35:15
that the last time he saw him he was
00:35:16
with the mhal sisters they received
00:35:19
multiple samples of DNA throughout the
00:35:20
cottage of his blood so all of this
00:35:23
would have been presented to the
00:35:25
jury author and journalist John money
00:35:28
was at the trial and remembers how it
00:35:32
unfolded you could see as the days went
00:35:35
by reality of what their circumstances
00:35:39
began to sink in that they knew they
00:35:42
were going to be found guilty and they
00:35:44
knew they were going to end up in
00:35:46
prison after a 10-day trial the jury
00:35:50
went out to deliberate they considered
00:35:53
the evidence they'd been presented with
00:35:55
for 18 hours over the course of 4 days
00:35:59
and in October 2006 they came back with
00:36:03
their
00:36:05
verdicts all of the evidence was
00:36:07
presented at the central Criminal Court
00:36:09
in front of a jury of 12 and that jury
00:36:11
came back and convicted Charlotte of
00:36:16
murder Charlotte's sister Linda was
00:36:19
convicted of
00:36:22
manslaughter the jury did accept that in
00:36:24
terms of Linda she was provoked
00:36:30
I remember looking at Linda mhal when
00:36:33
she was found guilty and when the
00:36:34
sentence was
00:36:36
imposed and she looked calm but
00:36:40
internally she looked distraught when
00:36:42
you certainly looked in her eyes she
00:36:45
just saw her world
00:36:47
ending on the 4th of December 2006 both
00:36:52
sisters were sentenced Linda received 15
00:36:55
years Charlotte was given the mandatory
00:36:58
life sentence for
00:37:00
murder judge Carney is a very eminent
00:37:03
judge and he described this murder as
00:37:08
the most grotesque murder that he had
00:37:11
seen down to the years in his
00:37:13
professional service Linda and Charlotte
00:37:16
were sent to Mount Joy women's prison to
00:37:19
serve out their
00:37:21
sentences but their mother Kathleen was
00:37:24
still nowhere to be
00:37:26
found Kathleen Mahal's decision to
00:37:29
abandon her daughters and leave the
00:37:31
state when they had been identified as
00:37:34
their Killers was really predictable in
00:37:39
many ways that particular woman had
00:37:43
really been an uncaring mother
00:37:45
throughout her entire life
00:37:48
she really tght about
00:37:51
herself Kathleen had fled to England and
00:37:54
been evading the authorities since her
00:37:56
daughters were charged in December
00:38:00
2005 there was a chance she may never
00:38:02
face Justice for her own part in the
00:38:05
murder but the 53-year-old shocked
00:38:07
everyone when she returned to Ireland
00:38:10
voluntarily in February 2008 4 years
00:38:14
after Farah had been
00:38:16
killed and in
00:38:19
2009 she too stands trial for aiding and
00:38:22
abetting Linda and
00:38:25
Charlotte Kathleen claimed she'd never
00:38:27
never witnessed the murder but admitted
00:38:29
that she had helped clean up the crime
00:38:31
scene and conceal evidence she was
00:38:35
charged with withholding evidence with
00:38:37
fleeing the country and with given false
00:38:40
or misleading evidence and also with
00:38:43
helping the girls to clean up the scene
00:38:45
of the
00:38:47
Murder She Got 5 years on her
00:38:51
conviction Kathleen was also taken to
00:38:54
Mount Joy prison where her daughters had
00:38:56
been sent
00:38:58
but by that point Charlotte was no
00:39:00
longer a prisoner there Charlotte hasn't
00:39:03
been a model
00:39:04
prisoner photographs were leaked to the
00:39:07
Press showing Charlotte mhall jokingly
00:39:09
holding a knife to a male inmate's neck
00:39:13
She was transferred to Limerick prison
00:39:16
and security across Irish prisons was
00:39:18
ramped up as a
00:39:20
result these two sisters are in many
00:39:24
ways a tabloid sensation
00:39:27
in 2018 after serving 12 years of her
00:39:31
15-year sentence Linda was released from
00:39:35
prison Kathleen had also served her time
00:39:38
and was
00:39:40
out the only person still in jail for
00:39:44
this ghastly killing is Charlotte and
00:39:48
she too is now being prepared for
00:39:52
release in 2022 Charlotte began a super
00:39:57
Vis Day released visits to her family in
00:39:59
Dublin and this is the first indicator
00:40:02
of steps that she will be released and
00:40:05
it's to reintegrate her into
00:40:09
society there was no doubt that Farah
00:40:12
swall no was a dubious and criminal
00:40:15
individual but legal recourses are
00:40:18
available to punish and provide Justice
00:40:21
for crimes committed Charlotte and Linda
00:40:24
took the law into their own hands with
00:40:26
their vigilant anti Act of savagery
00:40:29
there are ways of dealing with people
00:40:32
and while he may have provoked Linda she
00:40:35
certainly could have gone to the guards
00:40:36
and made a complaint and he would have
00:40:39
more than likely got been incarcerated
00:40:42
for a number of
00:40:43
years but to die in the manner that he
00:40:46
did and to be dismembered the way he was
00:40:49
no human being deserves
00:40:52
that I think the issue in this case with
00:40:55
regards of how they dealt with far's
00:40:57
advances was that they took it to an
00:40:59
extreme level it's not that people can't
00:41:01
defend themselves against sexual
00:41:03
assaults it's just how you do it and the
00:41:07
gravity of how you do
00:41:09
it this is a particularly gruesome and
00:41:12
shocking crime and certainly everybody
00:41:14
was aware of it it was the talk of the
00:41:16
country that this person you know should
00:41:19
be murdered stabbed dismembered and then
00:41:23
the body parts gotten rid of and then
00:41:26
when you look at it in the cold light of
00:41:28
day where they're on the bus with the
00:41:30
head they're having breakfast it's still
00:41:32
hard to to the
00:41:36
concept I think it's so highly unusual
00:41:39
that this was women that this level of
00:41:42
violence was Meed out by two women in a
00:41:46
joint Enterprise with both having no
00:41:50
restraint whatsoever I'm absolutely
00:41:52
knowing they were there in this kind of
00:41:54
Sisterhood packed absolutely
00:42:04
terrifying Charlotte and Linda Mulhall
00:42:07
killed unconscious faroh swalli no
00:42:10
before dismembering his body and
00:42:12
disposing of the parts around
00:42:16
Dublin they showed no remorse even
00:42:19
stopping for breakfast with Farah's
00:42:21
decapitated head with them in a bag for
00:42:24
their barbaric axe Charlotte and Linda
00:42:27
mulhal will forever be known as two of
00:42:30
the world's most evil killers
00:42:35
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