Deleted Gmail spam still shows up in Spotlight searches. Why?

Ok.
I do a search in Spotlight for some innocuous word like 'prices'.
In the search results are hundreds upon hundreds of gif images of pills from spam messages I thought I had deleted in Mail.
I look in Mail, in the sidebar under Gmail->All Mail and there are all the spam messages waiting to be found by Spotlight - the messages I thought I had deleted.
The Spam folder appears empty but the spam is still there.
How can they be fully gone, deleted, expunged and otherwise removed?

Hello,
In this case you will want to rebuild the Spotlight index since it's pulling old data. To do this, proceed as follows:
1. Open Terminal, located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder.
2. At the Terminal prompt, type the following command:
* sudo mdutil -E /pathtovolume
where /pathtovolume is the path of the volume whose Spotlight indices you wish to rebuild ( such as sudo mdutil -E / to do it on the startup disk )
3. Press Return and wait for it to finish.
4. At the Terminal prompt, type exit and press Return.
5. Quit (Command-Q) Terminal.
Hope this helps!
- Ryan M., Support Engineer, HostMySite.com

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