
Neighbours of pensioner Richard Osborn-Brooks have vowed to set up a roadblock in a bid to stop a funeral procession for dead burglar Henry Vincent from passing the home where he died.

Vigilantes said they would leave several cars at the entrance to the road in Hither Green, where neighbours and family members have been engaged in a daily battle over floral tributes left at the scene.

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg today waded into the funeral procession row, saying: 'It is very odd that they would want to go past his home - but it is a free country.'

He said police should get involved if relatives and friends of career criminal Henry Vincent 'harrass' and intimidate local residents during the planned horse-drawn procession past the home of the pensioner who killed him.

Mr Rees-Mogg, speaking on his new LBC radio phone-in show, said: 'What point does it become an act of harassment? That is when police ought to use powers to intervene.'

The Brexiteer said it wound be better if Vincent’s funeral cortège did not pass the home of his pensioner killer Mr Osborn-Brooks, in south London.

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A police car is stationed at the entrance to a park near Mr Osborn-Brooks' home in south London. Floral tributes left to Henry Vincent were taken from outside the home to the park by council workers yesterday

Council workers removed bouquets of flowers and balloons left in memory of dead career criminal Henry Vincent and palced them in this park, away from the home

Council workers place the flowers and balloons left by the family of the burglar in a nearby park after removing them from outside the pensioner's home

But the Tory backbencher said there should be a degree of 'sympathy' for the dead man’s family as they have 'lost a son or brother even if someone has done something wrong in the first place'.

Vincent's family are planning a £100,000 'funeral of all funerals' for the victim with a procession going right past his killer’s house.

A vigilante called Mike said he and a group of others would help to blockade the road to stop Vincent's funeral procession.

He told the Sun Online: 'We are going to block the road with vehicles so they can't go up the road.There will be at least a dozen vehicles blocking the road. It's going to be a quiet protest.'

Yesterday, council workers removed bouquets of flowers and balloons left by Vincent's traveller family as they created another shrine to mark his 38th birthday.

Around 20 women had left bouquets on the fence opposite the home where Vincent, 37, was fatally stabbed.

Lewisham Council staff finally removed flowers, balloons and placards this evening - after six days in which the criminal's family returned again and again to maintain the vigil

A large group of family and friends have turned up to pay tribute to career criminal Henry Vincent, as they laid another shrine to mark his 38th birthday

The council FINALLY act: Lewisham Council released a statement saying it had removed the vigil to reduce the impact on the local community

After six days of tit-for-tat action between the dead man's relatives and local residents unhappy with the placards outside the OAP's home, the council stepped in to remove the shrine in an attempt to 'reduce the impact on the local community.'

Two plain clothed Lewisham Council staff descended on the tributes this evening, placing them in a white van before driving away.

The man and woman collected balloons saying 'you'll be missed', red heart balloons, flowers and a placard with a picture of Vincent.

In a statement the council said: 'On the evening of Sunday, 15 April Lewisham Council staff moved the floral tributes which had been left in South Park Crescent to a local community garden.

'This decision was made jointly with the Met police to reduce the impact on the local community.'

It comes after relatives today claimed they were being racially discriminated against as members of the travelling community.

Around 20 people, all of which women, left more bouquets of flowers on the fence opposite the home where Vincent, 37, was fatally stabbed

Five youths stood across the road, just 20 yards up the road from Richard Osborn-Brooks' boarded up home, with their faces covered

After friends and neighbours of 78-year-old Richard Osborn-Brooks and his wife Maureen tore tributes to Henry Vincent down, one woman said: 'Just leave them [the flowers] alone, we are not coming back anymore to this s*** road'

After friends and neighbours of the 78-year-old and his wife tore previous tributes down, one woman said: 'Just leave them [the flowers] alone, we are not coming back anymore to this s*** road.'

A police car and two officers surveyed the scene in Hither Green, south east London, after telling them to move the shrine further away from Mr Osborn-Brooks's home.

A woman calling herself Henry's aunt said: 'At the end of the day Henry was not a murderer, he was not a killer. What you're doing here, the bombers don't get as much publicity as this.

Asked if she felt they were being racially discriminated against, she said: 'Yes I do and at the end of the day you cannot get any worse a penalty from a judge than the death sentence can you? Henry got a death sentence.

'I would not care if Henry got fifty years in prison as long as I could see him every day..... his blood was spilled and there have been death threats to his children. What have they done in life? 'They are not married yet or anything.'

She added they would not be returning to the road and were only here due to Henry's birthday.