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Frances Kindon

Boyzone slept with Stephen Gately’s coffin on church floor because he hated being alone

It was 13 years ago today that Boyzone star Stephen Gately died aged just 33, leaving his bandmates heartbroken.

When news of his shock death from an undiagnosed heart condition at his holiday home in Majorca broke, Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch and Mikey Graham immediately flew out to the Spanish island to bring their 'brother' home.

At Stephen's funeral on a gloomy October morning in 2009, the four men carried his coffin on its final journey, their eyes rimmed with red, their faces etched with sorrow.

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