 A MOTHER spoke of her heartbreak yesterday after her son was brutally murdered with an axe in a race hate attack. Black teenager Anthony Walker, 18, was targeted by a gang hurling racist abuse as he waited at a bus stop in Huyton. Minutes later, the A-level student was struck in the head with the weapon, which was embedded in his skull, and left to die. News of his senseless killing sent shockwaves around the country yesterday and seemed to echo the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager stabbed to death in south London in 1993. Last night, Anthony's mother, Gee Verona Walker, said: "This was an entirely racially-motivated attack. This is on a level with the Stephen Lawrence case. My son was killed purely because of the colour of his skin." Anthony (right), a devout Christian who hoped to become a lawyer after his studies, was with his white girlfriend and cousin when he was set upon by his attackers.
 They fled to find help but when they returned they found Anthony dying in the street. Mrs Walker added: "This is absolutely terrible. Anthony and his girlfriend had been going out for years. "We cannot change our colour. We have been asked not to say too much by the police while they investigate Anthony's murder, but there are a lot of questions that need asking." The promising teenager was studying media, law and IT at Carmel College in St Helens. He was hoping the results of the AS level exams, due out on August 11, would stand him in good stead when he applied to London universities later this year. Just before the attack, which happened at 11.30 pm on Friday, Anthony was with his girlfriend and Marcus Binns, his cousin, outside the Huyton Park pub, on St John's Road, when he was taunted for being black. The abuse worried them so much the teenagers walked on to the next bus stop. | 
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