Albert Johnson Walker (born 1946), also known as The Rolex Killer,[1] is a Canadian criminal serving a prison term for embezzlement and murder.
Walker eventually made his way to Harrogate in North Yorkshire where he lived with his daughter, who neighbours believed was his wife.
Walker bankrolled this trip, but claimed he needed Platt's driver's licence, signature stamp and birth certificate for the business.
Walker took Platt out on a fishing trip on 20 July 1996 and murdered him, weighed him down with an anchor, and dumped his body in the sea.
Had Walker not been convicted, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office would have transferred him back to Canada to face his fraud charges.
On 22 February 2005, The Globe and Mail reported that Walker would be transferred to a Canadian prison, where he faced additional charges of fraud, theft and money laundering.
[11] In 2000, the episode "Time Will Tell", of the series Forensic Files, details the investigation of Ronald Platt's murder and the capture of Albert Walker.
In 2007, the episode "The (Almost) Perfect Murder", of the documentary series Real Crime, examines the background behind Walker's arrest in England.
In 2010 British soap opera Coronation Street aired a storyline that bore a striking resemblance to the Albert Walker/Ronald Platt murder, in which character John Stape, after being struck off the Teaching Register for kidnapping a school girl, steals the identity of a former colleague, Colin Fishwick, to once again gain employment as a teacher.