THE funeral took place yesterday of the mother of murder victim Paul Crymble, almost 10 years to day after her son's killers were brought to justice.
Shirley Crymble was laid to rest beside her only son after she passed away at Antrim Area Hospital last Thursday.
Her death comes almost a decade after her daughter-in-law Jacqueline Crymble and her former lover Roger Ferguson were convicted of her son's brutal murder.
The father-of-two (35) from Richill was suffocated with a plastic bag in the early hours of June 20 2004 and his body found in his car, which had been abandoned down a secluded lane close to his Co Armagh home.
In May 2007, his wife and Ferguson were convicted of the murder.
Crymble, who had falsely claimed masked men broke into the family home looking for drugs and money before attacking and kidnapping her husband, was jailed for a minimum 20 years for the Father's Day murder.
Ferguson from Tandragee was sentenced to a minimum 18 years.
During the trial, Mr Crymbe's mother Shirley was praised for her bravery for speaking out at the trial.
Mr Justice McLaughlin told Armagh Crown Court at the time of the convictions that Mrs Crymble was "a lady of remarkable courage and immense dignity who gave evidence at the trial with care and balance and impressed into awed silence the entire courtroom when she spoke".
Following the convictions, Mrs Crymble spoke of her devastation revealing "there is not a day goes by that I don't think of my dear son and what has happened".
Mrs Crymble's funeral was held at the Church of the Nazarene in Carrickfergus yesterday followed by burial in Carnmoney East Cemetery.
