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06/10/2006
Man jailed over Walker website comments
A 30-year-old man has been jailed for more than three years for posting racist comments on a website set up in memory of a a murdered black teenager.
Anthony Walker was murdered on July 29 last year.
The teenager was attacked and killed with an ice axe in Huyton on Merseyside.
Neil Martin posed the offensive remarks on the website just days after the murder took place.
During police interviews, Martin had admitted posting messages, but denied that he was racist.
When Martin was arrested in September, police also charged him with having 33 images of child pornography.
Martin was jailed for two years and eight months for the race hate crime and six months for the child pornography offences.
(KMcA/EF)
Anthony Walker was murdered on July 29 last year.
The teenager was attacked and killed with an ice axe in Huyton on Merseyside.
Neil Martin posed the offensive remarks on the website just days after the murder took place.
During police interviews, Martin had admitted posting messages, but denied that he was racist.
When Martin was arrested in September, police also charged him with having 33 images of child pornography.
Martin was jailed for two years and eight months for the race hate crime and six months for the child pornography offences.
(KMcA/EF)
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