Devil Murders African With An Axe

[Hue-Man]

Man arrested over racist axe murder
Press Association
Sunday July 31, 2005 5:58 PM


A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following a racist attack on a teenager with an axe, police said.

Anthony Walker, an 18-year-old black 'A' level student was left with the axe embedded in his skull in the "vicious and unprovoked" assault in a park near his home in Huyton, Liverpool, on Friday night.

Just minutes earlier he had been subjected to a "torrent of racial abuse" as he waited for a bus with his teenage girlfriend and cousin.

Detective chief Superintendent Peter Currie, who is leading the Merseyside police investigation, said: "An 18-year-old man from Huyton was arrested after officers executed three search warrants after clashes in Huyton. The man will be questioned by officers."

Mr Walker was a keen basketball player who went to church and wanted to be a lawyer. He had spent the evening at home with his girlfriend, who is white.

Shortly before 11.30pm on Friday, they walked to the bus stop outside Huyton Park on St. John's Road so Mr Walker's girlfriend, 17, could catch a ten-minute bus-ride home to Kirkby.

As the couple waited for a bus with Mr Walker's male cousin, also 17 and black, they were racially abused by a man wearing a hooded top standing outside the pub.

They did not retaliate, and left to find another bus stop, because they "didn't want any bother or any trouble," police said. They were followed, and as they walked through McGoldrick Park they were attacked by a gang of three or four men.

Mr Walker's girlfriend and cousin saw the axe-man bludgeon him, and ran off to get help.

When they returned minutes later, they found Mr Walker slumped on the ground, with the axe still embedded in his head. He was taken to Whiston Hospital before being transferred to Walton Neurological Centre, where he died at 5.25am on Saturday.