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DUBLIN - In Ireland they have taken to calling two Dublin women the "Scissor Sisters" - not for any musical ability like the pop group - but because after killing a man they spent hours laboriously dismembering his body.
The shocking details of the most gruesome Irish murder case for many years have appalled the Irish public. The victim's head has never been found.
Charlotte Mulhall, 23, has been convicted of murder and her 31-year-old sister Linda convicted of manslaughter. Their mother, Kathleen, who was also involved, is on the run and being sought in Britain. Sentences will be handed down in December.
Farah Swaleh Noor, the Somali boyfriend of Kathleen, was bludgeoned to death in an argument. The dismemberment took up to five hours and most of the remains were dumped in Dublin's Royal Canal. The murder later came to light when youths spotted a leg floating in the water. The head was taken, by bus, to north Dublin and buried in a park. Later it was taken in a bag to several locations.
- INDEPENDENT
