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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Stephen Topping

He was Rochdale's forgotten boy... but now Awaab Ishak will always be remembered

It seemed like no one knew who he was.

Door knock after door knock, phone call after phone call, all met with the same response. Eighteen months had passed since Awaab Ishak's death and the tragedy had gone unnoticed.

Now, the little boy whose life was cruelly cut short will be remembered. He is already changing attitudes, in a housing sector which so badly let him down.

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