Teddy Mafia’s diamond varnished coffin cost R300 000
The Shallcross drug lord Yaganathan Pillay was laid to rest this morning in a police monitored funeral. His diamond studded coffin added sparkle to his send off. Teddy Mafia as he was popularly known was gunned down on the 4th of January this year in a drug war between gangs in Shallcross.
“We will be creating the diamond-studded casket at the family’s request. It is not real diamonds, more like cosmetic diamonds. The funeral procession will be led by a Rolls-Royce hearse and there will be a convoy of Land Rovers,” the funeral home reports.
Teddy Mafia’s diamond varnished coffin cost R300 000
The police however voiced concerns on how the funeral would be trigger for the Covid-19 spread as large crowds turned up. “Well I think the regulations are very clear and nobody needs to interpret it people have to comply with all of the regulations. So we will be monitoring the funeral as we do with all other events in the province. Regulations are there, they’ve been passed. Its very clear in terms of what will happen to people who contravene the regulations. Police will apply the law in all instances. The law is very clear. Detectives from the Provincial Organised Crime Unit are investigating the matter. We will inform the public once there is a breakthrough,” the police report.
Teddy Mafia’s diamond varnished coffin cost R300 000
In a rather blood chilling event, Teddy Mafia’s accomplices were beheaded and their corpses burnt. A white hearse moved slowly through the streets this morning with community members chanting for Pillay. The funeral is arranged by the same parlor that curated the late gangster Rashid Staggie. Teddy was sent off in his diamond studded coffin which cost R300 000.
Although masses refer to Pillay as a drug lord, his daughter thinks otherwise. “He wasn’t proven guilty. Although he was accused a number of times, he wasn’t proven guilty on it,” she said. “People say ‘he did this wrong, he did that wrong’, but what about all the good things he did? Your children getting food in their mouths, going to school? What about the churches, temples, mosques [he funded]? What about the police stations all eating off his money?” she says.
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Teddy Mafia’s diamond varnished coffin cost R300 000