The Curious Case of Sam Walker

The Curious Case of Sam Walker

Every major city has its odd personalities, but many would struggle to live up to the weird world of Sam Walker.

We don’t mean ‘weird’ in a kooky and crazy way, either; instead, we’re talking about someone who genuinely seems to have a screw loose and has continually demonstrated his desire to cause havoc.

His story began in 2017 when he had his jail term, given for dealing drugs, extended, but has seen some wild twists and turns in the months and years that have followed.

When he was out of prison on bail he chose to run off, then somehow ended up in Sierra Leone where he was jailed again, posting about it all on social media.

Walker is a Drug Dealer

Sam Walker lived in Beetham Plaza in Liverpool city centre when he was arrested for drug-related offences. We was released after serving half of his sentence but was re-arrested after being stopped by police, failing to comply with his parole conditions. He was given another sentence, which was extended when he left a threatening voicemail on the mobile phone of a police officer.

In the following months he was cleated of taking part in an armed raid, pled guilty to being in possession of ecstasy and went on the run after missing the court date that was put in place for his sentencing after being found in possession of counterfeit currency.

Even hardened criminals might be impressed by the rap sheet of Walker, who chose to attack the judge in his case over the counterfeit money. He declared that his sentencing was a ‘stitch-up’, saying, “I was caught with a poxy £480. Sex offenders who destroy peoples’ lives, they get community punishment orders”.

He then went on to pen a children’s book about his life growing up in the South of Liverpool, deciding that he wanted to help wayward kids stay on the ‘straight and narrow‘. He was banned from driving after being found guilty of road traffic offences, ending up in court after the police had to chase him on the motorway.

A Good Guy Deep Down?

The desire to write a children’s book might well have been an attempt to whitewash his reputation, with Walker also getting his sentence reduced after apologising for calling the judge in his trial a ‘paedophile’. Yet walker has displayed positive traits over the years. In 2017, for example, he treated eight homeless people to a two night stay in the Shankly Hotel in Liverpool.

He did it in order to give back to those that found themselves in a scenario that ‘we could all find ourselves in at any point’. He paid for two executive rooms in the hotel, putting up men and women to give them a couple of nights off the streets.

Whilst he might well have done that out of the goodness of his heart, it didn’t take long before he was back in prison. The man himself claimed that he had committed ‘over 100 offences‘ during his lifetime, being re-arrested for breaking the conditions of his licence.

Later that year, Walker released video footage onto his Facebook page of a prisoner being hit over the head with a sock full of pool balls, claiming that he posted it in order to point out the shocking state of the prison system. He said, “If you treat people like animals they will act like it”. The behaviour was declared ‘completely unacceptable’ by the Prison Service.

A Career Criminal

In the wake of serving his time in prison, Walker was back out but spent weeks goading the police over his whereabouts. He posted pictures and videos onto his social media that said that they should ‘catch me if you can’, wanted after missing a court date.

He reportedly fled to Sierra Leone, with a video on Twitter showing him returning from the African country in a helicopter as he evaded police. When he failed to turn up to court for a hearing, his solicitor claimed that he had been attacked whilst in police custody. Having told a judge he was ‘looking forward’ to his day in court, he then pled guilty to drug and driving offences.

@samwalkersvids First thing I said when I left prison #jonvenables #prison #jail #samwalker #samwalkerliverpool #samwalkerukk #samwalkeruk #samwalkervids ♬ original sound – Sam Walker TPR

When police were given a tip-off that Walker had a mobile phone whilst in prison, they searched him and a device was found ‘hidden up his bottom‘, which he later claimed had been between his legs. It didn’t take long for him to be at it again, however.

In the March of 2020, Walker posted a video from a maximum security prison where a mobile phone ‘cost £3,000‘. Speaking to the 2,300 people who subscribed to his channel, Walker said, “Welcome to Whitemoor, the maximum security facility which is full or terrorists, murderers and the most high security prisoners in the country”, telling them to ‘stay tuned’ for more.

The Social Media Criminal

YouTube were contacted about Sam Walker’s channel on the site and asked to take it down but refused. Walker himself seemed to understand the importance of social media, regularly posting things on different social media sites about what he was up to. That included heading to Sierra Leone in order to take part in a ‘peaceful protest’, being arrested in the West African country after having absconded from the United Kingdom.

He claimed to have made it there by chartering a private plane and using a speedboat in order to get across the Mediterranean Sea without having to go through any border controls, given his passport was sized.

Walker’s desire to be seen on social media is perhaps best summed up by the fact that he was caught live streaming on TikTok to more 2,500 people. He claimed it was a mistake, saying that he didn’t realise that he was still live when he entered the court. The judge wasn’t convinced, saying that ‘it wasn’t accidental, it was deliberate’ when he sentenced him to contempt of court.

It wasn’t the only time that he had used social media over the years, doing so to send Vlogs from prison as well as sharing other moments of his criminal life.