I have read many posts here by people complaining about racism in Singapore (including many expats), there may be racism here and you will always find it everywhere in the world but what happened above in UK is just heinous.LONDON, England (AP) -- Police in northwest England have arrested a second suspect in connection with the ax attack of a black teenager whose killing officers have described as racially motivated and named two more teenagers they want to question.
Merseyside Police arrested a 17-year-old late Sunday on suspicion of murdering Anthony Walker, 18, a spokeswoman for the force said Monday. She added that an 18-year-old suspect arrested earlier Sunday had been released on bail while inquiries continued.
Police said they also wanted to speak to 19-year-olds Paul Taylor and Michael Barton, whom they believed may have fled the country.
Walker, an honors student who was a keen soccer and basketball player and aspired to be a lawyer, died at a hospital Saturday after being attacked by a gang shouting racist taunts at him, authorities said.
"I need to find out who did this to my brother ... my little brother," Dominique Walker, 20, said in an appeal Sunday.
Her brother was waiting for a bus with his white girlfriend and a cousin at a bus stop near his home in Liverpool late Friday when a man started shouting racist insults at them, police said.
The three did not retaliate, and walked away to find another bus stop, police said. But a group of three or four men followed them through a park, and Walker's companions saw someone bludgeon him with an ax, police said.
They ran to get help and returned a few minutes later to find him with the ax embedded in his skull, police said.
"All his family and friends are devastated," Dominique Walker said. "If anybody knows anything, they have got to talk to police. Talk to them because we need the information."
Dominique Walker described her younger brother as studious, kind and loving, "the perfect son" and a "fun brother."
"You couldn't think of Anthony without smiling. Everyone who came into contact with him loved him. He blessed so many lives in his unique way," she said.
Well-wishers left piles of flowers around the scene of the killing Sunday.
A lawmaker who lives just yards from the murder scene said there had been some incidents of racial abuse in other areas of the city recently, but the brutal slaying was unprecedented in his neighborhood.
"It is entirely untypical of this area. The ethnic community, although small, is well-integrated," said legislator Eddie O'Hara.
"We are all totally devastated that this young lad was the victim of what seems to have been a racist attack," O'Hara said. "It is so terrible and sad that he was murdered in this way."
Violent racially motivated attacks have been relatively rare in Britain in recent years, although increased assaults on Muslims have been reported since the July 7 bombings in London. The highest-profile race attack in recent years was the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993.
Lawrence, 18, was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack by white assailants at a London bus stop.
Five youths shouted racial insults at the teenager and then stabbed him in the arm and chest. Bleeding heavily, Lawrence ran more than 100 yards (meters) down the street for help, but collapsed and died.
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Its ironic, a country claiming to fight terrorists and for human rights in other countries is unable to stop these atrocious incidents and attitude on its own land.
If such is the hatred in the social life that you slaughter somebody I just can't imagine the racial hatred and/ or discrimination in other aspects of life like jobs, human rights.........
Anyway to cut the story short to all the people complaining and grumbling about racism, common courtesies and blah blah blah in Singapore atleast such things don't happen here and frankly given a choice between a little bit of discomfort (in Singapore) and such horrifying incidents (in UK) I would choose the former.
Don't even want to start commenting on Great Britain........ (civilised & courteous people, human rights, equality, freedom, moden crusaders of terrorism such a load of crap
) welcome to the stone age.....Anyways may God give peace to the family of the deceased.
