Brixton crush victim's funeral held after three-month wait

The household of a pistillate who died successful crush astatine the O2 Academy Brixton person spoken of their anguish astatine not having her assemblage returned for much than 3 months.

Mother-of-two Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, died from her injuries aft a ample fig of radical tried to participate a performance by Afro-pop vocalist Asake connected 15 December.

Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the nursing graduate.

Silence fell connected the thoroughfare of Ms Ikumelo's household location successful Stratford, eastbound London, arsenic her coffin arrived successful a carriage led by achromatic horses.

The cortege past made its mode to East London Crematorium for the burial service.

On the nighttime of the crush, the performance was chopped abbreviated erstwhile a assemblage surged successful the foyer successful the Academy.

Two people, Ms Ikumelo, and information contractor Gaby Hutchinson, 23, from Gravesend successful Kent, died arsenic effect of their injuries,

Ms Ikumelo's household person been incapable to hide her until present due to the fact that her assemblage was held by the coroner.

"She was specified a peculiar person," Ms Ikumelo's aunt, Mary, told the BBC.

"It has been so, truthful hard to comprehend what we've been done arsenic a family... we lone conscionable got Rebecca's assemblage back.

"Why did it instrumentality truthful long? We are a diligent household and we volition combat arsenic we hold for justice."

A constabulary probe into the incidental is owed to reason adjacent month.