More than 200 mourners attended the funeral of a 20-year-old man who died when a car full of friends crashed.

Mourners - more than 200 people attended Richard Ellis's funeral service at Chelmsford Crematorium Picture: ROB SAMBROOK

Moving tributes were paid at the funeral of talented footballer Richard Ellis at Chelmsford Crematorium, yesterday.

The popular former Rainsford High School student, who lived in St Nazaire Road, died when the car he was in overturned after a collision with the central reservation in Essex Yeomanry Way near the Army and Navy roundabout at Chelmsford on Sunday, July 20.

Friends and family squeezed into the chapel and others stood outside to listen to the service on speakers.

Published Thursday, July 31, 2003

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