Incident
Before the assault, a hooded man in his late teens deliberately frightened and intimidated Walker using racist abuse at a bus stop outside the Huyton Park pub where Walker was waiting for a bus with his girlfriend Louise Thompson and his cousin Marcus Binns. Louise and Marcus ran to get help, and returned to find Anthony nearly dead and bleeding profusely with an axe embedded in his head. He was taken to a hospital but did not regain consciousness and died six hours later. The court heard that Walker died as a result of an ice axe being swung "at him with such force that its end smashed through his skull and was embedded in his brain". After the killing, Paul Taylor and Michael Barton (half brother to Premiership footballer Joey Barton) changed their clothes and fled to Amsterdam. They were arrested upon their return to Liverpool John Lennon Airport after their families were informed that they were the main suspects in the attack.
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