Help! (Mail) By mistake twice drag-dropped old POP emails to Gmail over IMAP. How stop the duplication?

Sorry for the clumsy title.
I have activated IMAP on my mum's Gmail and am uploading her old emails. The messages are from her pre-gmail times and were, thus, POP3'd to her computer using other email accounts.
The problem is I accidentally twice dragged the emails in one, rather large, folder to the corresponding IMAP folder. As a result I am getting duplicates in Gmail.
This duplication is currently ongoing and wouldn't be so bad were it not for the fact that her internet connection is a 3G broadband connection with a 1GB monthly limit.
Is there any way to "force quit" the copying/duplication from within Mail? I can disconnect the Gmail IMAP account but when I reconnect the duplication resumes.
TIA
Philip

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