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BBCTwenty years after the murder of her son in the racist attack, Anthony’s mother says that she is “now” if her killers want to talk.
18 -year -old Anthony was chased from a bus stop in Huton, Mercesticide before attacking with an ice ax and left to die at the entrance of a park.
It was a murder that respected and condemned.
In the months after the murder of his son, Dr. Zee Walker spoke openly about this grief, which he said “if someone had stuck the knife in you”.
Anthony was in the second year of his A-Level when he was killed.
Cousins Paul Taylor and Michael Barton, who were at the time of 20 and 17 years of age, were later convicted of killing him.
Tailor Was jailed for life With a minimum period of 23 years and eight months, while Barton – East -footballer Joy Barton’s brother – was kept in jail for 17 years and eight months in December 2005.
Dr. Walker earlier revealed how Taylor tried to make contact with her – but she was not ready to meet her at that time.
Two decades after her assassination, on 30 July 2005, she says how her son’s killers are the people who can tell her why she murdered her.
“I am here if she wants,” she now says, “but my children and family are really against it”.
“They really say: ‘Once a liar, they will always be a liar’. They say that I can’t find what I am seeing – Truth.
Family handout“But for me, they [Taylor and Barton] Was the last people who saw my son alive, so I would really like to ask them what happened, and why did you do it to my son?
“I still think for me, as a mam, I would like to know.
“Perhaps it will help me find out where this hatred comes from – because it is found to come from somewhere.
“So I was hoping that I would get some answers.”
Dr. The time for the walker is not going to be an ointment because her heart still appears in how she talks.
Dr. Walker says, “Now I think I have been stitched … back together – but the pain is still there.”
“I have found a lot of marks. [The grief] It seems that it never ends because it is just on a loop.
“It gets round -colored – no matter how much we try to get away from it, we cannot.”
Family handoutWhile his grief remains a real reality, Dr. Walker takes some comfort as support and love in view of Anthony’s death – especially from the people of Liverpool.
“I don’t know how to thank the people of Liverpool,” she says.
“Somebody asked me the other day – ‘Do you think Anthony is being killed, if it had been elsewhere?’ And, without a breath, I said, ‘Liverpools, they are a special breed’.
“I am very grateful for the support that keeps us straight today.”
Dr. Walker, who was made MBE for services for diversity and racial injustice in 2024, has dedicated his life to deal with racism in memory of his son.
PA mediaThe Anthony Walker Foundation was established to deal with racism, hatred crime and discrimination to promote equality and inclusion for all, by providing educational opportunities and suffering assistance services.
“I’m walking under the road and people [will say] ‘Thank you Mrs. Walker – You don’t know me, but I know you. Thanks to what you are doing for my child, “She says.
It acts as his son’s legacy, but also reminds what his life could be.
“Can you imagine – if Anthony has done so much in death, how much he lived, he must have done in life?” She asks.
On Wednesday, 30 July 2025, BBC North West tonight at 18:30 BST or on BBC iPlayer. Can watch interviews with a walker.
