Scissor Sister Charlotte Mulhall’s hopes of being released from prison before the end of the year have suffered a setback.
The convicted killer had expected to walk free from Limerick Prison this year after serving 16 years for murdering Swaleh Noor – but her release is unlikely before 2024.
Despite being granted day release to visit family and go shopping it appears the 38-year-old lifer’s bid for freedom is being delayed by the Department of Justice.
A source told the Sunday Mirror: "There was a lot of talk that she would be released over the coming months but for some reason it appears to be going nowhere.
"Her application, which was passed on by the parole board to the Minister for Justice, is still pending.
"She’s been having accompanied days out with prison staff to spend with family but she will most likely be in Limerick Prison for another year yet.
"When an application is approved by the board, they then send it to the Minister for Justice, who has 12 months to decide.
"If she does anything to jeopardise that application during that 12 months she will have the application pushed back.
"If the Justice Minister doesn’t grant it she will have to wait another couple of years before applying again."
Mulhall requested temporary release from prison last Christmas but had her application refused.
She has been inching ever closer to freedom with increasingly frequent day release visit with family – and could soon be let out for several days in a row.
Once freed, her status as a "life" prisoner will remain unchanged and if she reoffends she runs the risk of being immediately returned to jail.
The source revealed: "She is seen as well behaved by prison staff but she is still considered a s*** stirrer amongst inmates.
"She likes to stir the pot."
Charlotte’s sister Linda Mulhall is already free having served 15 years for the manslaughter of their mother Kathleen’s partner Swaleh Noor.
Charlotte stabbed Noor up to 20 times with a kitchen knife while Linda struck him with a hammer – with them claiming he tried to rape one of them.
They chopped up his body in their mother’s flat in Ballybough, North Dublin, and dumped his limbs and torso in the Royal Canal before taking his head on the bus to Tallaght and burying it in Sean Walsh Memorial Park, where they also threw the knives and hammer into a pond.
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