His friend Ben Sullivan said: “Keiran had been in a relationship for a few months and it felt like he had died because none of us had seen him since then and he wasn’t replying to any of our group texts or mails.
“A couple of weeks ago we were all in the pub and we all started saying RIP Keiran so we decided if he wasn’t going to come out with us and was going to pretend he was dead then we’d organise a funeral for him.
The pranksters also printed around 50 Order of Service leaflets, labelled ‘In Loving Memory of Keiran Cable’, complete with songs by The Vaccines, Oasis and The Jam.
It also paid a ‘special thanks’ to carpenter Shaun for creating the ‘magnificent coffin’ and ‘vicar’ Daniel Bundock who ‘carried out a memorable and respectful ceremony’.
