THE fiancee of a man who was murdered in a Sale street is too upset to return to their home, and an appeal has been set up to help her to make a fresh start.

Thirty-four year old Mike Grimshaw died outside his Royton Avenue home after being stabbed in the neck after confronting youths who had been causing trouble on the street.

Relatives say his fiancee, Michelle, who witnessed the attack, cannot face returning to the family home and needs funds to cover the cost of moving home and getting school uniforms for her children.

The appeal has been launched by Michelle's daughter, Rachel Whalley at www.gofundme.com/help-michelle-and-her-broken-family

Rachel said in a poignant message on the appeal page: "Due to this horrible incident happening outside my mother’s home as you can expect she is in no position to return.

"What was once a family home has now turned into an awful memory for my mother. She has three younger children that will now be being re housed with my mother closer to her family.

"We all know the expenses of moving home decorating and getting the carpets down so on then there's going to be the costs of high school uniforms for three children and then last of all having to do Christmas alone unexpectedly."

She added: "My mother has been left with a broken heart and a home she cannot face. Getting her back on her feet and settled in a new home is going to be some struggle we will need to gather as much as we can as a family and a community to give my mother and her children the best fresh start she can have, knowing her husband to be will not be by her side any more."

She said of Mike: "Money will also be going towards giving this amazing man, who was a brilliant step father to myself and younger siblings, a supportive loving fiancé to my mother and a fantastic father to his daughter, an amazing send off."