Scissor Sister Charlotte finds …puppy love
ONE of Ireland’s most notorious killers has found ‘puppy love’, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Scissor Sister Charlotte Mulhall, 31, is caring for a puppy as part of the Dogs for the Disabled scheme, which is run at Mountjoy Prison.
A source close to the prison told the Irish Mail on Sunday: ‘Charlotte has become attached to the puppy she is caring for. She has been spotted taking the pup to the in-house vet.’
Charlotte was jailed with her sister Linda in 2006 for the gruesome killing of their mother’s partner, 38-year-old Kenyan man Farah Swaleh Noor.
After stabbing him as many as 20 times they butchered his body and dumped it in the Royal Canal.
His head was never recovered after they transported it across Dublin on a bus and hid it in a park in Tallaght. They then moved it to another location.
Charlotte was jailed for life for Mr Noor’s murder, while Linda, now 41, was sentenced to 15 years for manslaughter. Linda Mulhall applied for early parole last year after serving almost 10 years in prison.
The Dogs for the Disabled charity was founded in 2007 to improve the lives of children and adults living with physical disabilities. The scheme was first introduced at Wicklow’s Shelton Abbey prison by governor Conal Healy in 2013, and was soon embraced by a number of other institutions, including Dublin’s Wheatfield and Mountjoy prisons.
At Shelton Abbey, dogs live in the dormitory-style cells with their handlers, who train them for a year – after which they go directly to a child with a disability.
Inmates in Mountjoy’s women’s prison – including Charlotte Mulhall – are now training puppies to become disabled children’s buddy dogs. It’s understood that Mulhall has become very attached to the puppy since her fiancée Karen Kelly took her own life in 2015, shortly after her release from the Dóchas unit. Dog therapy in prisons isn’t a new idea, with prisons around the world – including in Australia and the US – adopting similar schemes. Although Dogs for the Disabled retains ownership of the dogs, the prisoner is a dog’s master while it is in their care. The inmates keep the dogs in their room, feeding them, bringing them for walks and caring for them when they are sick.
‘She has become attached to the puppy’