'I have spent years caring for the grave of a man I've never met - the tragic story why'
manchestereveningnews.co.uk‘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. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link Peter, 78, was working as an electrical contractor around Rochdale in 1975 when he first heard the story of Stefan Kisko.
At the time, Stefan was 23, a vulnerable man with learning difficulties. That fateful year had been marked by the tragic killing of little Lesley Molseed.
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