CWMBRAN car crash victim Emma Proctor was finally laid to rest yesterday alongside her mother, Kim.

Devoted mum Emma, 25, of Blenheim Square, St Dials, died on April 14, along with friends Martin Connop and John Gibbings on Five Locks Road, Pontnewydd.

Yesterday she was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Pontnewydd, in the same grave as her mother, Kim, who died, aged 28, when Emma was just five.

More than 300 mourners packed the Holy Trinity Church in Pontnewydd to say their last goodbyes to the "popular, sensitive" young woman.

Her coffin entered the small church to the sounds of Unchained Melody, by Emma's favourite singer, Gareth Gates, and left to another of the Pop Idol's songs, his version of the hit Evergreen.

The Rev Harald Thomas said to Emma's friends and family that all the happy memories they held of her should eclipse the sad thoughts of the tragic day she died. He described her as a "free spirit" with a "generous nature", and said: "Emma was a wonderful mother to her young son, Nico, she lived for him."

Rev Thomas also spoke of how Emma was very close to her father, Reg, who raised her when her mother died.

He said Emma liked listening to love songs and watching weepy films, and was a loving, sensitive young woman.

The hymns The Lord is My Shepherd and All Things Bright and Beautiful were sang, and prayers were read out.

The most touching moment of the very emotional service was when the Rev Thomas read out a poem that Emma had written as a child. The short, poignant verse, entitled Mam, was written by Emma about the death of her mother.

Emma's funeral was the last of the three friends who died. The funerals of John Gibbings, 37, and Martin Connop, 31, took place last month in Pontypool and Cwmbran.

Steven John Price, aged 30, of Ty Pwca Road, Pontnewydd, has been charged with the murders of the three friends.