A judge has sentenced the two men found guilty of the murder of 18-year-old Anthony Walker to life in prison.
Twenty-year-old Paul Taylor will spend at least 23 years and eight months in jail for killing the teenager.
His 17-year-old cousin Michael Barton, who supplied the murder weapon, was sentenced to 17 years and eight months.
Anthony was attacked with an axe in a Merseyside park in what the judge described as a racist attack. He later died in hospital.
Anthony Walker was attacked while escorting his girlfriend, 17-year-old Louise Thompson, to a bus stop in the Huyton area of Merseyside, Liverpool.
A group of boys is said to have set on Walker, calling him racist names, but he tried to walk away.
After sentencing the two men the judge described the attack as "poisonous".
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