The funeral of stabbed burglar Henry Vincent will be held on 3rd May after the family hold a two-day vigil around his body telling stories about him, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.

A source close to the Vincent family says that the traveller community are planning to take their £100k 'big send-off' past the house where pensioner Richard Osborn-Brooks killed him – risking inflaming community tensions all over again as locals have already threatened to prevent that happening with roadblocks.

The procession – where flowers alone will cost £50k – will pass the spot where the crack addict died, following gipsy tradition.

The family of burglar Henry Vincent, who was killed by a pensioner during a break-in, are planning a huge funeral for him costing £100,000, a family source has revealed

Career criminal Vincent (left) died of a stab wound after struggling with Richard Osborn-Brooks (right) during a late-night break-in at the home the pensioner shares with his wife

But it also aims to make a 'big show' to those outraged by what they've dubbed as the travellers' provocative repeated failed attempts to build a shrine there that they're not be messed with.

A source told MailOnline: 'On 1st May Henry's body will be taken back to his mother's house in Swanley, Kent.

'For two days they'll sit around telling stories about him before a procession of vehicles, including limousines and horse-drawn carriages, will pass the house in Hither Green in south east London before he's taken back up to St. Mary Cray Cemetery in Star Lane where he'll be buried right by where his family live on the Star Lane traveller site.

'Travellers take their funeral corteges past where a person died and they want to give him a big send off as he was a patriarchal figure.

'But they also want to make a big show about his death and prove the gipsy legend that they're not to be messed with.'

Mr Osborn-Brooks and his wife Maureen have been forced to move out of their home following revenge threats by Vincent's criminal family

Repeated attempts by Vincent's family to make a shrine to him in the street have caused tensions in the area

The news follows outrage last week when it was revealed that Henry Vincent's funeral cortege would be passing Richard Osborn-Brooks' home.

It came after days of battles between Vincent's relatives repeatedly building a shrine and vigilantes tearing it down again opposite the house where the botched raid cost the life of the father-of three, 38, despite him going in armed with a screwdriver.

His accomplice Billy Jeeves, 28, is still at large after fleeing the scene in a white Vauxhall Astra van.

Richard, 78, and Maureen Osborn-Brooks are currently living in a safe house. All their possessions have already been moved out of their former home.

Vincent is said to be being treated like a 'gipsy god' by loved ones, despite his notorious past as a career criminal who preys on the elderly.

The Met Police said they did not believe the funeral procession would pass through the area. A spokesman said: 'An appropriate policing plan will be in place.'