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Parklife festival offers £20,000 reward in hunt for perpetrator of fatal attack
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 19 June 2014
Organisers of the Parklife festival in Manchester have announced a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of a man who killed another attendee of the event, Robert Hart, earlier this month.
As previously reported, the incident took place in front of the main stage on the Saturday of the festival, and seemingly occurred after Hart’s girlfriend was hit with an inflatable doll. Hart was then subjected to a “brutal assault” and died from his injuries several days later last week.
In a post on Facebook, the festival said: “From the start we believed that, out of the 70,000 people at the festival, there must have been one person who knows who was responsible for this cowardly act. After careful consultation with [Greater Manchester Police], who have in turn been in extremely close communication with the family, we are now able to offer £20,000 for information which leads the authorities to identifying the attacker and convicting him for the crime”.
The attacker is described as a muscular man in his late 20s, around six feet tall, of mixed race, with short, curly black hair. He was wearing shorts and a blue bomber jacket with a white letter A on the front.
Anyone with information should contact the incident room on 0161 856 9283 or mit.syndicate8@gmp.police.uk. You can also provide information anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
