Andre Walker – a right wing blowhard presenter on Rupert Murdoch’s little-watched online TV channel Talk – was found guilty of assault this week. Not that you’d find any mention of it in any of Talk’s sister newspapers or on their websites.
Reading Magistrates’ Court heard how Walker lost it when fossil fuel presenter Dr Kush Naker disrupted a dinner at Windsor Guildhall in September 202, held to celebrate Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK. The presenter carried Naker out of the room and subjected him to a “prolonged assault in a side room”.
The 47-year-old, who claimed he was “trying to protect artwork in the building”, was convicted of assault by beating, given an 18-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £650 in court costs and £550 to his 36-year-old victim.
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After judge Sundeep Pankhania told him, “You should certainly be ashamed of the way you behaved”, Walker reacted by slamming his palm on the desk, standing up and moaning: “Can I go now?” He later claimed on social media: “I called the judge a cock and stormed out.”
Naker had been chanting an anti-oil slogan when Walker approached “at pace” and pulled his arm, the judge was told. The campaigner then fell over and was carried by the defendant and another man into the side room.
Describing the subsequent incident on his YouTube channel, Walker said: “Obviously there was [sic] no cameras at one point” and gave a double thumbs-up.
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Alas, space concerns prevented either of News UK’s two daily newspapers – the Sun and the Times – from reporting on their colleague’s conviction this morning, nor was there time to discuss it on the Talk show, Andre Walker and Ash Gould Live, which his wingman Gould was last night hosting solo.
But Walker has spoken about it on his own YouTube channel, in a nine-minute rant entitled ‘ANDRES [sic] VERDICT, WE WON MOST OF IT!!!’, in which he absurdly claims that getting a conviction of assault by beating was actually a victory, before vowing to appeal it.
Which, of course, means begging for funds – the video features both PayPal and Patreon links as well as full details of Walker’s own personal bank account for anyone daft enough to want to bung a few quid his way. Who says crime doesn’t pay?
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