“He always used to tell his friends, ‘don’t forget the charities, don’t forget to help people’. A lot of people would listen to him and give what they could.”
A snapshot of a Mohammed Islam - known as Nowab Miah, a much-loved father and restaurant owner who was tragically killed during a carjacking in Stockport early last year.
A pillar of his local community, a mentor and a best friend, it is hard to understate the impact Mohammed had on his family and the three Greater Manchester towns where he worked, lived and socialised. The family man and owner of Marple Spice had been delivering his last takeaway on the night of Friday, January 8 to an address in the nearby village of Romiley when he fatally injured.