Stabbed burglar Henry Vincent’s funeral procession will pass home of ‘hero’ pensioner Richard Osborn-Brooks
The lavish bash is 'supposed to be a message to locals and the OAP that gipsies are not to be messed with'
STABBED burglar Henry Vincent’s funeral will involve a horse-drawn procession past the home of the hero who killed him.
Travellers plan to lay on the “funeral of all funerals” for the career criminal, 37.
A source close to his family said they are planning to spend £100,000 on the final journey of the crack addict.
He was killed in a struggle with Richard Osborn-Brooks, 78, who disturbed him in his home in Hither Green, South East London on April 4.
Residents fear Vincent’s traveller friends could clash with the community when the procession takes place. The source said: “They plan to take the procession right past the house.
“It’s supposed to be a message to locals and the guy who killed him that gipsies are not to be messed with.”
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The source added: “Vincent’s spent his life ripping off the elderly yet his funeral’s designed to make you think he was some kind of gipsy god.
“They’re planning to spend £50,000 just on flowers. There will be limousines and ornate horse-drawn carriages.”
Vincent is due to be buried near his family’s site in Orpington, Kent.
- POLICE in Kent went on a six-day training camp last year and had diversity seminars on how not to upset travellers.
'COUPLE TO SELL UP'
RICHARD Osborn-Brooks and his wife Maureen are to sell their home because they are too scared to return.
A friend said: “They’re waiting for the dust to settle before they put it on the market.
“It’s the fact that they could come back and that his wife is disabled. They could terrorise him. It’s not safe.”
The Osborn-Brooks are living under guard in a police safe house.
Police, meanwhile, warned people removing travellers’ flower tributes from outside the house may be arrested.
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