[1] Taylor had prior convictions for battery, and burglary,[1] and at the time of the crime was on early release from a young offenders' centre.
[2] Anthony Walker spent the evening of 29 July 2005 at home with his girlfriend, Louise Thompson, babysitting his nephew.
Binns and Thompson managed to escape and ran away to get help, while Walker was fatally wounded when Taylor struck him in the head with an ice axe, which lodged in his skull, causing brain death.
Passing life sentences, with minimum terms of 23 years and eight months for Taylor, who had admitted the murder just before the trial, and 17 years and eight months for Barton, Lord Justice Leveson said that the cousins had perpetrated a "terrifying ambush" and a "racist attack of a type poisonous to any civilised society".
[2] In April 2006, it was reported that Barton had been attacked by fellow inmates at Moorland Closed Prison near Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
Tracy Garner admitted assisting an offender and received an 11-month suspended sentence and 50 hours of community service.
One such critic was Labour MP Edward O'Hara, who stated that, although there was a "certain surface comparison", Walker's killing was "random, exceptional and representative of absolutely nothing".
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[17] The Anthony Walker Foundation was created in 2006 and "works to tackle racism, hate crime and discrimination by providing educational opportunities, victim support services and by promoting equity and inclusion for all".