On the night that Torquay United paid tribute to the memory of former manager Frank O'Farrell, the Gulls honoured their former boss in the best way possible as they put Aldershot Town to the sword.
The crowd of 1,831 impeccably observed a minute's silence in his memory before the game, which was attended by members of O'Farrell's family, as well as Bruce Rioch, who was mentored by O'Farrell early in his managerial career at Plainmoor.
United edged ahead on 13 minutes when the Shots defence headed a corner from Armani Little back towards the Gulls skipper, and his cross found Dean Moxey, who headed home his first goal of the season.
Three minutes later, United doubled their lead when Connor Lemonheigh-Evans picked out QPR loanee Stephen Duke-McKenna on the right wing, and his low cross found Sunderland loanee Stephen Wearne who struck from six yards.
Lemonheigh-Evans had a hand in the Gulls' third on the half hour mark when, after being caught between two minds of whether to shoot or not, he knocked the ball past two Aldershot defenders - only for Bradley Webb to slice an attempted clearance into his own net.
Two minutes into the second half, the match was effectively ended as a meaningful contest when Danny Wright got the better of an overstretched Aldershot back line and teed up Lemonheigh-Evans for a simple tap-in for his eighth goal of the campaign.
United were denied a fifth in the 88th minute - which would have equalled their biggest win of the season - when Duke-McKenna picked out Little at the far post, but his effort was ruled out for offside.
It was a display that O'Farrell, who guided United to promotion in his first season in charge in the 1965-66 campaign before leading the club to its highest ever league finish of fourth in what is now League One two years later, would have approved of.
Next up for the Gulls is the visit of Weymouth, another of O'Farrell's former clubs, as they will be hoping for more of the same.
