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Anthony Walker murder: Joey Barton's racist killer brother in bid to be freed from jail

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A racist killer is making a bid for freedom after a moving drama about his victim airs on TV tonight. Michael Barton, 31 – brother of former Premier League footballer Joey Barton – is preparing for a parole hearing in October, just 15 years after he murdered 18-year-old Anthony Walker.

He is asking to be moved to an open prison so he is more likely to be released when his minimum 16-year term is up. Barton was 17 when he and his cousin Paul Taylor, then 20, ambushed Anthony after racially abusing him at a bus stop on July 29, 2005.

Taylor drove an ice axe through Anthony’s skull in a park in Huyton, Merseyside, and the killers fled to Amsterdam. Barton was found guilty of murder and jailed for a minimum of 17 years and eight months at

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