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10/05/2006
Three sentenced for aiding Walker killers
Three people who helped the killers of 18-year-old Anthony Walker have been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court.
Paul Taylor, 20, and Michael Barton, 17, were jailed for life last year for the racist murder of the teenager. Anthony died after he was attacked with an ice axe in McGoldrick Park, Huyton, Merseyside last July.
Paul Morson, 26, of Huyton, Robert Williams, 32, and Tracey Garner, 34, admitted helping Taylor and Burton, who fled to Amsterdam after the murder.
Morson, who provided the car the pair used to drive to Amsterdam, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender and was sentenced to eleven months imprisonment.
Williams, who booked a hotel room for the killers in the Dutch capital and flew out to the city to give them money, admitted perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to two years and four months.
Garner, who is Williams' partner, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender. She had helped to book the hotel room and had also accompanied Williams to Amsterdam. She received an eleven-month suspended sentence.
After sentencing, Anthony's mother Gee Walker, told reporters: "They said sorry, which is a common word to most people these days, but I think actions speak louder than words.
"We will see if they toe the line."
(KMcA)
Paul Taylor, 20, and Michael Barton, 17, were jailed for life last year for the racist murder of the teenager. Anthony died after he was attacked with an ice axe in McGoldrick Park, Huyton, Merseyside last July.
Paul Morson, 26, of Huyton, Robert Williams, 32, and Tracey Garner, 34, admitted helping Taylor and Burton, who fled to Amsterdam after the murder.
Morson, who provided the car the pair used to drive to Amsterdam, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender and was sentenced to eleven months imprisonment.
Williams, who booked a hotel room for the killers in the Dutch capital and flew out to the city to give them money, admitted perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to two years and four months.
Garner, who is Williams' partner, pleaded guilty to assisting an offender. She had helped to book the hotel room and had also accompanied Williams to Amsterdam. She received an eleven-month suspended sentence.
After sentencing, Anthony's mother Gee Walker, told reporters: "They said sorry, which is a common word to most people these days, but I think actions speak louder than words.
"We will see if they toe the line."
(KMcA)
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