A few weeks ago, referring to the premeditated and racially motivated murder of Anthony Walker in 2005,
Barton said:
“My brother lost 17 years of his life from 17, because his mate, who was his cousin at the time, thought it would be a fantastic idea, when they were having a f*****g scrap, to pull an ice axe out and swing it into somebody and it stuck in his head.”
Joey Barton's brother Michael Barton and their cousin Paul Taylor followed Anthony Walker, his girlfriend and a friend before the ambush and murder. Taylor struck Mr Walker in the head with an ice axe. M Barton initiated the confrontation and supplied that axe. The fatal blow was delivered so forcefully that the axe was driven over two inches into the victim's skull.
Joey Barton's comments were made in a video he posted on twitter as a plug for his podcast. (Now seems to have been deleted.)
Joey Barton slammed over comments on brother's racist murder of Anthony Walker
(h/t
GarveyLives.)