No expense was spared for the funeral of notorious gangland figure Cornelius Price - who was cremated in the UK following a private family service on Monday morning.
Three top of the range yellow, maroon and white Lamborghinis led the mobster’s funeral cortege in Rochdale in Greater Manchester as family and friends followed behind carrying Price’s wooden coffin. The mobster, who is a suspect in at least four murders including the killings of Willie Maughan and his pregnant partner Ana Varslavane, died on Sunday, February 19 after he contracted a brain disease in October 20201.
Yesterday morning, a private funeral service was held in Rochdale Crematorium & Cemetery where a large circle of family members, relatives and friends were in attendance. Several mourners were spotted wearing t-shirts with the mobster's photo printed on them with the caption "The Boss."
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Extended family members and pals of the gang boss left Balbriggan and other parts of the country and travelled by ferry to the UK on Saturday evening to attend the funeral service. There were rumours the Drogheda mob boss’s funeral was to take place in Balbriggan, north county Dublin were he lived for numerous years before purchasing his 0.4 hectares compound in nearby Gormanston.
Gardai were closely monitoring details of Price’s funeral as an extensive policing operation would have had to be put in place to prevent revenge attacks or violence because Price had numerous enemies including criminals. These include associates of Price’s rival serial killer Robbie Lawlor who was shot dead in Belfast in 2020 in revenge for the murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods as part of the violent Drogheda feud.
The feared gang boss’s private Rochdale funeral service and cremation this morning came despite Price’s daughter Alisha posting to social media last week that “my father Nailyboy Price’s funeral is taking place in Ireland. No matter what anyone else thinks, God knows his heart and that is all that matters,” Alisha wrote last week. “Be back in Ireland soon on his own turn for the greatest and biggest send off you’ll ever see. What he deserves.”
But later, Alisha contacted this reporter to say the funeral “is private and no-one knows when or where it’s happening. The only thing people know are assumptions. It’s no one’s business but his family. We just want peace.” She also informed us yesterday: “He was cremated and not buried.”
Alisha also requested on social media that those in attendance at her dad’s funeral not take any photos or post any videos to social media. Several of Price’s supporters took to social media after the service writing: “He really did have the best send off,” while another wrote: “Yous done him very proud.”
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