Row erupts after 30-tonne memorial appears next to giant headstone of ‘traveller king’

The gaudy memorial for Michael Collins stands just metres from a similar shrine to his brother (Picture: Anita Maric / SWNS)

An enormous 30-tonne memorial has appeared next to ‘Britain’s biggest’ headstone belonging to a so-called ‘traveller king’.

The nine-foot monument in Shiregreen Cemetery, Sheffield, marks the grave of Michael Collins and now stands mere metres away from the £200,000 marble headstone for his bare-knuckle boxer brother, William ‘Willy’ Collins.

The first memorial made headlines when it was erected two years after Willy’s death in 2020 at the age of 49 in Majorca<...