Tributes have been paid to a 'nature-loving' gardner who was found dead in a Stockport park on Monday evening.
Now named publicly as Robert Finnigan, the Offerton dad had been missing for more than a month when his body was uncovered at Vernon Park in the evening of March 14. Concerns had previously been raised about his whereabouts when he had failed to reply to messages from his son, with police issuing numerous appeals in a bid to help trace him.
The gardener, who also had a keen interest in fishing, had first been reported missing on February 6, and was later found in Vernon Park - more than five weeks later. A large emergency services response rushed to the scene as officers from Greater Manchester Police sealed off the entrance to the lower section of the river path inside the beauty spot into Tuesday morning.
