A month before Christmas on a bitterly-cold winter evening in the heart of Manchester city centre, two homeless men died in a fire which engulfed a derelict building.
At first they were identified only by their nicknames - Popeye and Uncle Albert - but eventually their characters, personalities and lives were revealed.
One was a father-of-six with 10 grandchildren. The other had spoken recently of hoping to reconcile with his family in Ireland after eight years away in Manchester.
The tragedy in Chinatown in November, 2016, which claimed the lives of James 'Popeye' Evans, 57, and 51-year-old Wayne Bardsley, who was also known on the streets as 'Uncle Albert', sparked a murder investigation on the part of Greater Manchester Police.
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