After losing both of her parents by the age of eight Angel-Joy Darko was placed in the care system. Her headteacher Sarah Kneller stepped in to become her legal guardian, in a story similar to that of the Roald Dahl character Matilda.
Angel lost her father at just four-years-old to a heart attack, throwing her mum and her into poverty as they struggled to come to terms with their grief. The family of two slept on the sofas of people from their church and spent days walking the streets.
But whilst going through this Angel’s mum, Agnes, a care worker, became ill and was diagnosed with cancer. Tragically she died two years later, leaving Angel an orphan with no family in the UK as her extended family live in Ghana, Birmingham Live reports.
