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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Helena Vesty

'I have spent years caring for the grave of a man I've never met - the tragic story why'

‘Every week, I go to the graveyard and all the staff at the cemetery know me. In my heart, I feel the terrible, unbelievable ordeal of Stefan being called abusive names, being cut up and beaten… that’s why I have to keep going to his grave as I do.'

Peter Ross is a familiar face at Rochdale Cemetery. He has been showing up weekly for years, the staff know him by name.

His dedication is to one plot, bearing the names of a man, and his mother and father. But the grave he is visiting is dedicated to a man - and family - he has never even met.

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