Hundreds of spurned Prestwich residents are rallying behind a petition to scrap this year’s Parklife festival in Heaton Park following the rampant anti-social behaviour, violence and drug taking that marked last summer.

Detectives are closer than ever to finding the attacker of Rober Hart, who died after an assault at Manchester’s Parklife festival last summer

The funeral of tragic Parklife reveller Robert Hart will take place today – as the search continues for his killer almost four months on.

Police have stepped up their hunt for Robert Hart’s killer by releasing five new pictures of potential witnesses.

Robert, 26, died on Wednesday June 11, five days after the assault at the music festival left him fighting for life with bleeding on the brain

Robert, 26, from Macclesfield, was assaulted near the Parklife Weekender Festival‘s main stage around 9.15pm on Saturday, June 7

Detectives arrested Leon Anthony Wong, 31, in Cheshire on Saturday in relation to the attack that led to 26-year-old Robert’s death at the Parklife Weekender Festival on Saturday June 7

Robert Hart, 26, from Macclesfield, suffered fatal head injuries after being attacked as he danced with his girlfriend, Gemma Parry, at the Parklife Weekender in Heaton Park on June 7

Parklife organisers have offered a £20,000 reward for information that helps police crush the ‘shield of silence’ surrounding the killer of tragic reveller Robert Hart.

Today, Robert Hart’s mother Elaine, 65, from Rainow, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, appealed for her son’s killer to come forward

Robert Hart, 26, from Macclesfield, was punched when the offender hit his girlfriend, Gemma Parry, with an inflatable doll before moments before headliner Snoop Dogg was set to perform on Saturday night.