Police were out in force yesterday as murder victims Jahmal and Jahmil Cooper were finally laid to rest in St. George?s following a packed funeral at St. Peter?s Church.

Hundreds of mourners turned out wearing the Coopers? trade-mark red as Police kept a watchful eye from a distance before following the funeral procession up the hill to the Seventh Day Adventist church.

The pair, who went missing on March 13, met a violent end after being held at a home in Devonshire but their bodies were only found at Abbot?s Cliff, Hamilton Parish last week.

Watching the scene yesterday was Goldie O?Neal whose son Jermaine (Red) Pitcher was murdered on Reid Street five years ago.

She told : ?It brings back bad memories. I know what the mother is going through. It?s sad.

?They didn?t have to kill them. It?s terrible. I think Bermuda is going to the dogs. It is the Devil?s Island as far as I am concerned. When I grew up in Bermuda it was nice. The killing of my son was bad enough ? this was worse.?

Mrs O?Neal said she couldn?t get into the packed church to pay her last respects to the twins with whom she had a connection.

?Their great-grandmother and my mother were friends. The boy?s grandmother and I used to hang out together.?

She said it was impossible to come to terms with the loss of a child ? even when the death was accidental.

?When someone has killed your child it?s much worse, you never get over it. But I will tell the mother not to worry about it and let the Lord take care of everything.?

She said the violence was going to continue until murderers were locked up for life.

May Muninah, who lives on Court Street, spoke at the funeral. She later told she saw Jahmal outside a gambling den before he was kidnapped and warned him to be careful after he had been robbed.

Some sources have said the abductions may have been in connection with the theft of close to $200,000 from an underground gambling den.

?I still can?t believe it, they died a horrible, horrible death,? said Ms Muninah. ?My heart is real heavy today. I can still see them the way they were. The bad thing is they wouldn?t say where they were.

?I see more violence coming up.?

The bodies were finally removed from Abbot?s Cliff on April 14 ? the day the twins should have been celebrating their 21st birthdays.

Police said they died from multiple blunt traumas.

Two men have been charged together with causing grievous bodily harm ? Kenneth Jermaine Burgess, 33, from Cottage Hill Road, Hamilton Parish, and Dennis Alma Robinson, 34, of Palm Valley, Southampton.

Chief Inspector Andrew Boyce said no new charges have been laid and Police are still looking for other suspects.

?There are several people we need to speak to,? he said.