LONDON, England:
THE MERSEYSIDE police have arrested and charged three more persons in connection with the killing of black teenager Anthony Walker, whose parents are Jamaican.
Walker, an 18-year-old Christian, had just completed college with straight A's and had intended to pursue a course in law. He died in hospital after a vicious attack in which an axe was embedded in his head near McGoldrick Park in Huyton by youths who taunted him, his white girlfriend and another relative with racist comments. The killing happened in Merseyside in July, and it is believed that Walker was killed because he was black.
Two men, Michael Barton and Paul Taylor, aged 17 and 20, have already been charged with murder and appeared in court recently via a video link from prison. The pair is also charged with conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm. The trial should get under way on November 14.
Those arrested this week are Robert Williams, 31, and Tracy Garner, 34, both of Kirkdale. They have been charged with conspiring to assist an offender, while Paul Morson, 25, of Hatfield Crescent in Huyton, is charged with perverting the course of justice. All will appear before Liverpool magistrates next week.
- D.P.G.
