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Liverpool Echo
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Lottie Gibbons

The Wanted bandmates carry Tom Parker's coffin as fans line the streets for star's funeral

Hundreds of fans lined the streets for a procession ahead of the funeral of The Wanted star Tom Parker.

The pop singer's widow, Kelsey, whom he married in 2018, led a cortege featuring three black horses through Petts Wood in south-east London on Wednesday morning. Flowers spelling out the word "Daddy" adorned the side of the carriage while a flowered sign that spelt the word "Tom" in red roses was attached to the front.

Tom died last month at the age of 33, surrounded by his family and bandmates, 17 months after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. Family and close friends of the star gathered in The Sovereign Of The Seas pub opposite the funeral parlour before the procession began.

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