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Stephen Topping & Katie Weston

'Unapologetic' housing boss gets £41,000 pay rise despite boy, 2, dying in mouldy flat

Housing bosses were handed huge pay rises while two parents grieved the loss of their two-year-old son who died due to black mould in his home.

Awaab Ishak had celebrated his second birthday just a week before he died from a respiratory condition caused by mould in December 2020.

He lived in a one-bedroom flat with his parents Aisha Aminin and Faisal Abdullah, who had previously complained to Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) about the mould.

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