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Anthony Walker killer Michael Barton's sentence to be cut

A high Court judge has ruled that Michael Barton will be released a year early due a "remarkable transformation"

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Gee Walker speaks of being 'betrayed' after jail sentence is cut for son's killer

The mother of the teenager Anthony Walker who was murdered 11 years ago says she feels 'deeply betrayed' after a judge reduced the minimum sentence of one of his killers.

Michael Barton, from Huyton in Liverpool was seventeen when Anthony Walker was killed.

Today he had a year cut from his jail sentence for what the judge described as 'exceptional progress' behind bars.

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