A festivalgoer said he was attacked in the middle of Sefton Park in front of children.
Faris Khalifa, 33, was at Africa Oyé with friends when he said a man approached him and started "screaming his face off", spitting at him and "swearing in front of children". Faris, who was worried the man, who he said he knows, would physically attack him, told the ECHO: "It was just bizarre because it was right in the centre of a festival in front of a lot of people and children. It happened so fast, he came out of nowhere."
Faris, 33, and his friends left after the encounter because "the mood was dead after that". The festival, now in its 30th year, was running for the first time since 2019, and it was Faris' first time attending in five years. He said: "Despite [the verbal abuse], we had a good time, it was amazing. But we didn't stay for a single minute [after that], just because of fear, just because the whole thing was ruined for us."
