Our Lady of Victories Church in Horsley Park in Sydney was packed with mourners, many of whom were Maltese, on Tuesday morning for the funeral of Doujon Zammit, the Maltese-Australian who was bashed to death on the Greek island of Mykonos last month.

Father Michael Smith celebrated the funeral mass which lasted more than two hours.

The young Maltese-Australian was given long applause during the ceremony, and a short movie depicting Doujon's life from birth up to his fateful trip was shown.

At the end of the Mass, which was attended by the Maltese Ambassador Francis Tabone and his wife, consul general Annamaria Bonnici, and the Consul-General of Greece, Nikolaos Oikonomdis, Doujon's coffin was carried from the church by his family and friends. As relatives formed a circle beside the hearse, 20 white doves and 20 white balloons were released into the air.

The Maltese Ambassador met Doujon's father Oliver, and grandfather Greg, who originally hails from Gudja. "Oliver expressed the wish to establish a Doujon Zammit Transplant Gift Fund in Malta, similar to the one he launched today in Australia," Mr Tabone said. "He felt very proud to be Maltese and appreciated the help and support the family received from the Maltese-Australian community."

Doujon's life ended when his father had to take the heartbreaking decision to turn off life support when it became clear that Doujon would never recover from the coma he suffered after the attack by Greek bouncers.

His organs were donated and four people have benefitted from the kind gesture. The intensive care ward of the Errikos Dinan hospital in Athens will be named after the young Maltese-Australian.