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Second arrest over racist axe attack in Britain

Second arrest over racist axe attack in Britain

LONDON – North of England police on Sunday arrested a 17-year-old in the Liverpool suburb of Huyton in connection with a racist attack in which a black student was bludgeoned to death with an axe, they announced early yesterday.

The 18-year-old student, Anthony Walker, was left with the axe embedded in his skull in the “vicious and unprovoked” assault near his home in Liverpool on Friday night, in a shocking case in multi-cultural Britain. “Merseyside police has arrested a 17-year-old man from Huyton in connection with the death of Anthony Walker.He has been taken in a Merseyside police station where he will be questioned,” the announcement said.An 18-year-old had earlier been arrested in connection with the case, but he was released on bail pending further enquiry, the police said.The dead man, who had hoped to train as a lawyer, was attacked by a group of three or four men after spending the evening at home with his girlfriend, who is white, police said.”What we are dealing with here is a vicious and unprovoked attack on a young black man which we believe to be racially motivated,” said the region’s deputy police chief Bernard Lawson after the attack.- Nampa-AFP”Merseyside police has arrested a 17-year-old man from Huyton in connection with the death of Anthony Walker.He has been taken in a Merseyside police station where he will be questioned,” the announcement said.An 18-year-old had earlier been arrested in connection with the case, but he was released on bail pending further enquiry, the police said.The dead man, who had hoped to train as a lawyer, was attacked by a group of three or four men after spending the evening at home with his girlfriend, who is white, police said.”What we are dealing with here is a vicious and unprovoked attack on a young black man which we believe to be racially motivated,” said the region’s deputy police chief Bernard Lawson after the attack.- Nampa-AFP

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