The Hunt For Albert Walker
COMING SOON!
He fled Canada for the UK and proceeded to lie, steal and murder his way through British society. A six-year manhunt finally brought him to justice.
Albert Walker
birth place: Paris, Ontario, Canada
His undoing was the retrieval of a Rolex watch by a fisherman in the English Channel one day in the summer of 1996.
Albert Walker was a small-time Ontario businessman. He had a wife, four children and his own financial services company. A respected church-going man and member of the local choir, he was a good salesman.
When he set up United Canvest Corporation in the Cayman Islands many of his investors were fellow members of the congregation; they were happy to trust him with their money.
In 1990, Walker and his daughter Sheena took a flight to London and disappeared along with a large chunk of his clients money. Detectives later discovered he had squirreled away millions of dollars in European banks.
To avoid detection, Walker and his daughter had to assume a new identity, the swindler’s eyes fixed on Ronald Platt. Platt was an Englishman who spent his youth in Calgary, Canada and was so desperate to go back, he even had a maple leaf tattooed on his hand. Walker bankrolled his emigration but before he left relieved Platt of his birth certificate and driving license.
For six years Walker and Sheena lived as Mr and Mrs Platt in south-east England. Sheena had two children and though their father has never been identified it is suspected they sired by Walker.
Their crime would probably remained undetected had the real Platt stayed away, but disillusioned with the Canadian economy he returned to England and settled close to the fraud couple.
Walker resolved to murder Platt. He dumped the body in the sea, where it got caught in the nets of a fisherman. The corpse was only identifiable by the serial number on the Rolex watch still strapped to its wrist.
When the police caught up with Walker he was obviously planning to flee again. In the month following the recovery of Platt’s body, Walker bought over 67,000 pounds in gold bullion.
When police swooped down on the Essex farmhouse to arrest him, they discovered his daughter Sheena stuffing some of those gold bars into a diaper bag.
At the trail Sheena testified against her father, excusing her behaviour by claiming he hypnotized her. Walker was convicted of embezzlement and murder and sent to jail in 1999.
birth place: Paris, Ontario, Canada
The tale of Albert Walker is twisted with deception, gold bullion, incest and murder.
His undoing was the retrieval of a Rolex watch by a fisherman in the English Channel one day in the summer of 1996.
Albert Walker was a small-time Ontario businessman. He had a wife, four children and his own financial services company. A respected church-going man and member of the local choir, he was a good salesman.
When he set up United Canvest Corporation in the Cayman Islands many of his investors were fellow members of the congregation; they were happy to trust him with their money.
In 1990, Walker and his daughter Sheena took a flight to London and disappeared along with a large chunk of his clients money. Detectives later discovered he had squirreled away millions of dollars in European banks.
To avoid detection, Walker and his daughter had to assume a new identity, the swindler’s eyes fixed on Ronald Platt. Platt was an Englishman who spent his youth in Calgary, Canada and was so desperate to go back, he even had a maple leaf tattooed on his hand. Walker bankrolled his emigration but before he left relieved Platt of his birth certificate and driving license.
For six years Walker and Sheena lived as Mr and Mrs Platt in south-east England. Sheena had two children and though their father has never been identified it is suspected they sired by Walker.
Their crime would probably remained undetected had the real Platt stayed away, but disillusioned with the Canadian economy he returned to England and settled close to the fraud couple.
Walker resolved to murder Platt. He dumped the body in the sea, where it got caught in the nets of a fisherman. The corpse was only identifiable by the serial number on the Rolex watch still strapped to its wrist.
When the police caught up with Walker he was obviously planning to flee again. In the month following the recovery of Platt’s body, Walker bought over 67,000 pounds in gold bullion.
When police swooped down on the Essex farmhouse to arrest him, they discovered his daughter Sheena stuffing some of those gold bars into a diaper bag.
At the trail Sheena testified against her father, excusing her behaviour by claiming he hypnotized her. Walker was convicted of embezzlement and murder and sent to jail in 1999.
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