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| Walker race hate messager jailed | Walker race hate messager jailed |
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| A man who posted racist messages on a website set up in memory of murdered black teenager Anthony Walker has been jailed for two years and eight months. | |
| Neil Martin, 30, of Maghull, posted the offensive remarks just days after the 18-year-old student was killed with an ice axe in Huyton, Merseyside. | Neil Martin, 30, of Maghull, posted the offensive remarks just days after the 18-year-old student was killed with an ice axe in Huyton, Merseyside. |
| He pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to publishing material intended or likely to stir up racial hatred. | He pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to publishing material intended or likely to stir up racial hatred. |
| Suspect e-mails had been sent to a condolence site for Anthony in 2005. | Suspect e-mails had been sent to a condolence site for Anthony in 2005. |
| The teenager was murdered in McGoldrick Park in Huyton on 29 July of that year. | |
| Sentence 'adequate' | |
| At an earlier hearing before South Sefton magistrates, Martin was also convicted of 33 counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child. | At an earlier hearing before South Sefton magistrates, Martin was also convicted of 33 counts of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child. |
| At the hearing on Friday he was jailed for a further six months for downloading the indecent images. | |
| Passing the sentence, the judge said Martin had "trespassed and intruded on the grief of the Walker family". He also told him that stirring up racial hatred could cause grave damage. | |
| Anthony's mother, Gee Walker, attended the hearing and speaking afterwards described the sentence as "adequate". | |
| At the previous hearing Martin's solicitor revealed her client was ashamed of his conduct and had written a letter of apology. | |
| But Mrs Walker said she had refused to accept the letter after hearing what he had written on the online book of condolence for her son. | |
| Two men, Paul Taylor and his cousin Michael Barton, were convicted in November last year of murdering Anthony Walker. | |
| The pair had ambushed Anthony after shouting racist abuse at him as he waited for a bus with his girlfriend and cousin. | |
| Both were jailed for life and the judge said Taylor would serve at least 23 years and eight months before he would be eligible for parole. |