An 11-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted by three boys under the age of 10 as mourners gathered in a cemetery.

Celebrity mourners joined friends and family to bid a final farewell to Peaches Geldof at her funeral yesterday.

When Christine Buckley’s older son, Darragh, came home from school one day, fresh from a teasing about his afro hair and frustrated that he didn’t look like everyone else, she told him never to be afraid of standing out from the crowd.