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Episode 1338: Scissor Sister Charlotte Mulhall gets full release date from prison
08 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What led to Charlotte Mulhall's life sentence?
She's spent recent years in Limerick after she was transferred down there for disciplinary issues. I won't say she had brought a case against that, but in recent times she has been living in one of these, I suppose they're self-contained apartments within the prison where people are long-term prisoners such as Charlotte Mulhall. And she's one of Ireland's longest-serving female prisoners.
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Scissor sister Charlotte Mulhall is due to get a release date this year when she finally finishes a life sentence for murdering her mother's partner and dismembering his body. So what lies in store for Ireland's most famous female prisoner and how has she finished a life sentence aged just 39? Today, I'm talking with Niall Donald and you're listening to Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com.
2026 is going to be a year that Charlotte Mulhall, who's dubbed one half of the Scissor Sisters, will welcome as she is due to get full release later in the coming months. Yeah, she was given release over Christmas again. You can see that there's graduated release given to prisoners like Charlotte Mulhall, where they are initially allowed out, accompanied by prison officers,
Ultimately, then they're allowed out for a few hours during the day. And at this point, she's being allowed out overnight. And that all leads to this eventual release. Do you want to feel super old? Go on. I do already, by the way. So Charlotte Mulhall has packed a lot into life, in fairness, including a life sentence for murder.
She's on her way out, back into the community, having served her time. What age is she? Well, is she 40? Don't look. No, is she 40? 39. 39. I mean, I know because she was convicted 20 years ago. So, I mean, if you look back on the case. She's so young. She's so young. She's going to be out for her 40th birthday. She'd be out for her 40th birthday having, you know, gone from. Done a life sentence.
Done a life sentence. Managed to become one of, genuinely one of the most notorious people in the country. I mean, I think it's interesting if you look back in 2005 on that case, which obviously, you know, made incredible headlines because of, not necessarily because of the murder itself, but because of the disposal of the body parts, really. Well, it was the first thing that was incredible.
The fact that the Farrah Swalane where his body could not be identified, the fact that his head was missing, the fact that the rest of his remains were stuffed into bags and thrown into the canal. Then when the murder scene was eventually discovered at Richmond Cottages, it was discovered that he had literally been chopped to pieces by two women, stuffed into a shower. Yeah.
Blood was washed down the drain and that the house, the crime scene was so well forensically cleaned that there was hardly a speck of blood left. I mean, it was an extraordinary story. And it also, I suppose, brought in in the beginning, if you recall, that there was a belief that there was some sort of an aspect of voodoo because the head and the private parts were missing.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of Charlotte Mulhall's upcoming release?
Swale Noor's head in a backpack and she buried it in a lands up around Tala later returned to dig it up because she'd been having nightmares that she thought you know it was coming up out of the ground so it was all very gruesome and awful but like I think the police involved would suggest that there wouldn't have necessarily been the forensic evidence there to convict had it not been for Linda's confession Linda because she confessed showed remorse etc she was convicted of
Of manslaughter. And Charlotte, who had, I suppose, tried to get away with it and had not confessed, she was dealt with far harsher by the jury. Yeah, I mean, look, if you stab somebody 20 times, you're likely to get a murder charge and there is only one sentence for murder, which is a life sentence. And so it was it was almost inevitable.
But the circumstances certainly were she was a very young woman. It was a very, very violent crime. But he was also, you know, a character that that that was a quite a sinister person. And the case was was huge. I remember the CCTV of them as well carrying the bag went around. I mean, there was just an incredible interest in it. The interest has never died.
Charlotte and Linda, as you said, Linda has been out for a number of years now. She got a far lesser sentence because of the manslaughter charge. She was ultimately, has not... continue to generate media attention, I suppose. But Charlotte was, certainly initially when she went into prison, she was, I suppose, the focus of trouble really in the jail.
She's no longer, she's been a model prisoner, has she not been since she has been moved to Limerick. She's in good nick nowadays. She's not raising her head. She's But it took her a while to get that. Probably. Yeah. You know, she was so young. She was so young and obviously, no matter what way you look at it, through an awful lot of trauma. So initially she was quite a troubled prisoner.
She had initially spent her time in the DOCUS Centre, the female wing of Mountjoy Prison. But she's spent recent years in Limerick after she was transferred down there for disciplinary issues. I won't say she had brought a case against that person,
But in recent times she has been living in one of these, I suppose they're self-contained apartments within the prison where people are long-term prisoners such as Charlotte Mulhall. And she's one of Ireland's longest serving female prisoners in the system. So it's a life sentence prisoner who is released sort of unlicensed, you know, and there's terms and conditions with that.
So they have to remain living within the law or the life sentence can be reactivated at any time? 100%. I mean, you can be brought back into prison for almost anything. Certainly initially after you're released, you'll probably be in, signing on in the prison every week. But you're never, the life sentence never goes. And there have been cases of one, I know of one female prisoner
life sentence prisoner who was brought back in three or four years after she'd been released on some very minor charge and then spent another couple of years in prison. So it's very much at the discretion of the police and the people who look after life sentence prisoners. But Charlotte, as you said, has become a model prisoner. She had certainly been linked to
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