It was no ordinary funeral. Three top of the range Lamborghinis led the cortege to Rochdale crematorium. Behind a large circle of friends and family, many of whom had travelled from across the Irish Sea, carried flowers spelling out the words 'legend' and 'king' .
Other floral tributes included a golden handgun and a black pistol with silver bullets. On March 6 this year, notorious Irish mob boss Cornelius Price was laid to rest in Rochdale.
Price, a suspect in at least four murders, died a fortnight earlier after he contracted a brain disease in October 2021 - his final escape from the Irish Gardaí. READ MORE: Gangland enforcer Billy 'Bullet Man' Isaac...
violent cases, famous friends - and a final tragic twist READ MORE: How Stockport hardman Jason Coghlan went from UK's most wanted to helping Brits on Costa del Crime It's thought he'd fled to the UK, where he had family links in Rochdale and Manchester, sometime in 2020 after a gangland feud in Drogheda, County Louth, had grown increasingly violent.
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