‘Scissor Sister’ Linda released

Killer finally free – but she’s ‘of no fixed abode’ and heartbroken after rejection from her ex

NOTORIOUS ‘Scissor Sister’ Linda Mulhall has been released from prison, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal.

The convicted killer was freed from the Dóchas Centre in the Mountjoy complex in Dublin early on Tuesday morning.

However, she is currently of ‘no fixed abode’, sources say – and the 42-year-old mother of four was also left ‘devastated’ in recent months after being rejected by a former prison officer with whom she had been romantically involved.

Mulhall was relatively well behaved behind bars, and she had been telling her fellow inmates that she was confident she would be given an early Christmas present and let out on temporary release.

She had also said she expected to be reunited with the former prison officer once she was free.

However, the man, who took early retirement after allegations of a sexual relationship with Mulhall emerged, has indicated to the killer that he is not interested in contact Freedom: Linda Mulhall with her upon her release. She wrote to the ex-prison officer, who is married and lives with his spouse and children, but there was no response.

A source said: ‘She thought herself and this prison officer were going to set up house when she got out of jail. She even had an idea of them spending their first Christmas together as a free woman and that the relationship would continue and blossom.

‘That is not the case. She now knows it’s not going to happen. She’s a bit crushed.’

Sources also explained that she was not given temporary release at Christmas – as convicts with no fixed abode are not allowed out. A source said: ‘It is sad that she didn’t have an address to list in order to get out for Christmas. That was her reality. So she couldn’t get out for Christmas as she was of no fixed abode. She is out now though.’

In October 2006, Tallaght native Mulhall received a 15year sentence for manslaughter for her role in the killing of her mother’s boyfriend, Farah Swaleh Noor, 38.

Her sister Charlotte is serving life for his murder. Linda immersed herself at working in the prison hair salon alongside her younger sister. She also has a keen interest in beauty therapy, and it is believed she will seek work in this area now she is free.

The Mail previously revealed how Charlotte Mulhall has claimed she had a ten-month affair with a married prison employee at the Dóchas. The officer has since been moved to another Dublin jail while a major prison investigation is ongoing.

Linda and Charlotte Mulhall became known as ‘the Scissor Sisters’ after they fatally attacked Farah Swaleh Noor – a Kenyan immigrant – at their mother Kathleen’s house at Richmond Cottages off Dublin’s North Strand on March 20, 2005. Evidence at their trial suggested they were on a vodka and ecstasy binge with their victim and their mother when Noor made an aggressive pass at Linda.

When he ignored warnings to leave her alone, Charlotte picked up a Stanley blade and cut his throat. Noor, who had a wife and two children in Kenya, staggered into a downstairs bedroom.

Charlotte stabbed him up to 20 times with a kitchen knife while Linda admitted hitting him ‘a good few times’ in the head with a claw hammer.

Both spent hours cutting up his body in the bathroom and packing most of the parts into black plastic bags. They then dumped his limbs and torso in the nearby Royal Canal before taking his head on the bus to Tallaght, where it was hidden in a park, before being disposed of in another location.

‘Couldn’t get out for Christmas’