In coffins which stood side by side, fa­ther and son Aqiyl and Aki­ni Kafi were laid to rest at the Crown Street, Pub­lic Ceme­tery yes­ter­day af­ter a fu­ner­al ser­vice at the Cor­pus Christi RC Church, East­ern Main Road, Laven­tille.

Catholic Priest Fa­ther Clif­ford Main­ooh, dur­ing his homi­ly, called on rel­a­tives and friends of the mur­dered fa­ther and son to unite for the bet­ter­ment of the coun­try.

Aki­ni, who would have cel­e­brat­ed his third birth­day on Thurs­day, was killed when the ve­hi­cle his fam­i­ly was trav­el­ling in was rid­dled with bul­lets in Bel­mont on May 7.