VIDEO: Karen Buckley Funeral: Family’s horrific journey to a day of grief

On Tuesday, April 14, at 2pm, Marian and John Buckley sat in a strange room full of unfamiliar faces in a different country. It was there, at a press conference at Glasgow Police headquarters in Govan, that they pleaded for the safe return of their daughter.

Exactly two weeks later, after their worst fears had been realised, they sat among family and friends, united on an unseasonably cold April day in their parish church to mourn their daughter Karen.

Some 300 mourners had started to fill the small Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Analeentha from 11am yesterday.