A priest at one of London’s most historic churches has described the “spooky” moment he realised he was holding a fake funeral for an empty coffin with actors paid to be mourners.
Monday’s ceremony had seemed above board with the London Oratory Roman Catholic church in South Kensington filled with photographs of the alleged dead man with a choir in attendance as well as top-hatted staff from an undertakers, two vintage cars for mourners and a horse-drawn hearse – and a film director on hand to capture the event for posterity.
