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Brother of 'Traveller King' buried next to Britain's biggest headstone

2024-10-25 1,621 Dailymotion

The brother of a 'Traveller King' has been buried next to Britain's biggest headstone after being conveyed in a funeral cortege with a fleet of Rolls Royces.<br /><br />Terry Collins, 52, was buried next to his brother Willy's huge 37-ton, £200,000 marble gravestone after a lavish funeral procession in Sheffield, South Yorks.<br /><br />A silver Rolls Royce led the procession, complete with fluorescent lighting and some of his favourite songs playing.<br /><br />A red carpet was laid out on the entrance to St Theresa’s Roman Catholic Church, ahead of the mourners arriving, along with a giant photograph in a frame of poppies.<br /><br />His lavish platinum casket was carried into the church, were friends wore T-shirts with a photograph of his face and the caption: “RIP Terry Collins ‘The Toucher’.”<br /><br />Parked outside the church were two trucks, with spectacular floral tributes in the shape of hearts and one showing Terry in his work gear, complete with a high-vis vest.<br /><br />As mourners gathered around the family's burial plot, an electronic board displayed pictures of Terry, alongside poems and family tributes. <br /><br />A plane also flew over the cemetery, creating the shape of a heart in one manoeuvre.<br /><br />Terry died on September 25, four years after his brother Willy, 49, passed away on holiday in Spain.

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