BATTLING mum Brenda Rowley is scheduled to appear in a Channel 5 TV documentary on Sunday.

The Astley mum of four will feature in top investigative reporter Donal MacIntyre's "Who Cares for Gary?" when it goes out at 9pm.

For five years Brenda has been fighting for justice for her 30-years-old son who drowned after being left alone in the bath at his Salford Council care home in July 1998.

A jury inquest the following year into the death of Malcolm, who had the mental capacity of a baby and who could not walk or talk, returned a verdict that neglect had played a part in his accidental death.

This verdict resulted in the Health and Safety Executive prosecuting Salford City Council in 2000 for breaches of health and safety law which led to fines of £25,000.

In the same year at Manchester Crown Court the council was fined £115,000 for failing to ensure Malcolm's safety and failing to report his death in the quickest possible means.

Brenda, who is still fighting for manslaughter charges to be brought, set up the Malcolm Rowley Trust, a registered charity to help vulnerable people who use community care services and the ace reporter became a patron.

Brenda has been filming for the past few months with Donal whose recent investigation into care homes caused uproar.

Sunday's programme is an investigative documentary into the care system for the learning disabled.

Brenda said: "Malcolm's story will be told in the programme and I am grateful to Donal for sticking with it for the past five years."