Hundreds pay respects to murdered Sian

By Marlborough People | Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 07:00

HUNDREDS of people lined the streets yesterday to pay their respects to nightclubber Sian O’Callaghan (

Well-wishers gathered in the Old Town area of Swindon – where she lived with her boyfriend and was last seen alive – as the funeral cortege passed slowly by with a police escort.

Wiltshire Police asked people to wait in either Bath Road, Devizes Road, Newport Street or Marlborough Road.

More than 500 had gathered in the Old Town area as the procession passed by.

Two days after her body was found, another body was found in a shallow grave in Gloucestershire. She was later identified as Becky Godden-Edwards.

Miss O’Callaghan was last seen leaving Suju nightclub in Old Town in the early hours of March 19 after a night out.

A massive police hunt was launched for the personal assistant, including detailed searches of the Savernake Forest, near Marlborough.

Five days later police found the 22-year-old’s body in a field in Uffington, Oxfordshire. Minicab driver Christopher Halliwell, 47, has been remanded in custody to await trial charged with her murder.