Batchelor's funeral was a moving tribute emphasising forgiveness over mob menace

28 July 2019 - 00:00 By YOLISA MKELE

When people with supposed underworld ties die in the manner that Marc Batchelor did, one tends to imagine that the funeral will be like something out of The Sopranos or The Godfather...

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