MEMBERS of Warrington's Muslim community last week attended the funeral of murdered teenager Shafilea Ahmed.

More than 150 people paid their respects to the 17-year-old whose body was pulled from a river in the Lake District two months ago.

On Thursday afternoon, friends and family gathered at the teenager's home in Great Sankey for the arrival of Shafilea's coffin.

The hearse pulled up at the house, on Liverpool Road, before the teenager's body was carried back outside to the funeral cortege.

Father Iftikhar Ahmed, aged 44, appeared in tears as the procession made its way to the Islamic Community Centre in Bewsey

Mourners arrived at the centre, on Lockton Lane, for a 75-minute service.

Following prayers, the hearse was taken to Fox Covert cemetery in Appleton, where Shafilea was buried.

Members of the Islamic community lowered the body into Shafilea's grave accompanied by some final prayers.

Detectives are still investigating her murder after Shafilea's badly decomposed body was discovered in the River Kent.

It was deliberately concealed in undergrowth and was only found by flood workers following rising waters in Cumbria.

Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, Shafilea's parents, are still on police bail having been arrested on suspicion of kidnap.

Last year, the unhappy teenager wrote poems about feeling trapped after being put forward for an arranged marriage.

She drank bleach and badly injured her throat in an apparent protest against being introduced to a potential suitor.