We met sleeping on the streets... and now we're engaged!

COUPLE TO TIE THE KNOT AFTER TURNING THEIR LIVES AROUND

- PAIGE OLDFIELD

A COUPLE who met while sleeping on the streets have turned their lives around and are now engaged.

Stephen Daniels watched hundreds of legs pass him from an empty shop doorway on Market Street. It had been two months since he found himself sleeping rough in Manchester city centre.

A struggling alcoholic, Stephen had no hopes for his future. He once had a home and a job and lost it all in the blink of an eye.

But that all changed on December 5, 2017.

Stephen glanced up from his cold sleeping bag to see a woman stood over him.

That woman, Louise Kakanskas, was Meeting Lo my life. If I D her, I would b or hos also homeless. She asked for a lighter and the pair got chatting. Four years later, she would become his fiancé.

"Meeting Louise saved my life," Stephen, 50, told the M.E.N. "If I never met her, I would be in prison or in hospital. We've not spent one night apart since we met. We've spoken about engagement before, but one night we saw a ring on the telly and we ordered it and that was it." Stephen Stephen, from Altrincham, first became homeless while living in Bournemouth in early 2017. He had moved to the area for work.