Britain: LIVERPOOL REMEMBERS A “GODLY SON”
By Patrick Reilly
Special to ASSIST News Service
Friday, August 26, 2005

LIVERPOOL, UK (ANS) -- 3000 mourners filled Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral on Thursday, August 25 for the funeral service of Anthony Walker, an 18 year old Christian youth leader who died in an appalling racist attack that was described as the “shame of Liverpool.”

Anthony was devoted to God, his family and his friends. The athletic, basketball-loving teenager had tuned down the opportunity to join a basketball club so that he could focus more of his time and energy, serving as a youth leader at the Grace family church in Aigburth.

Pastor Di Stacey described Anthony as a “very special young Man. He wasn’t a rebellious kid, he had a really sweet and good heart and all he wanted to do was to help other people.”

The attack happened on July 29th as Anthony walked his teenage girlfriend to a bus stop in the Huyton district of Merseyside. Accompanied by his cousin Marcus Binns, 17, the trio decided to move to another bus stop after Anthony was verbally abused by a group of young men taunting him with racial hatred. Taking a short cut through a local park the gang followed the group where Anthony an A level student who wanted to become a lawyer suffered a fatal blow to his head from an axe.

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