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