A British gangster taunted police from Africa after fleeing the UK by private jet and taking a 2,000-mile hitch on a cargo ship.
Self-confessed career criminal Sam Walker – who once threatened to end the career of football star Ross Barkley – skipped bail after being arrested on suspicion of a drug supply plot. The 39-year-old, from Liverpool, embarked on a six-day journey criss-crossing Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, to Sierra Leone.
He claimed he took the unorthodox route to avoid border checks.
Walker is repeating an audacious journey he made in 2018 – while also wanted by police – where he was nicknamed the Bad Samaritan after claiming to have used the trip to help rebuild slums.
Walker, who has more than 100 crimes to his name, posted videos to social media, detailing how he gave police the slip despite having his passport confiscated.
Self-confessed career criminal Sam Walker has taunted police from Africa after fleeing the UK by private jet and taking a 2,000-mile hitch on a cargo ship
The gloating gangster shared videos on social media on how to ‘sneak out the UK’ to avoid police
The 39-year-old, from Liverpool, embarked on a six-day journey criss-crossing Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, to Sierra Leone
His brazen videos, posted to Instagram, show Walker flying in a private plane to Antwerp in Belgium.
The clip is titled: ‘How to sneak out of the UK 2024 when police have tried to get me on trumped up drugs charges. Step one – hire a private plane.’
Walker then claims to have taken another two flights to New Damietta on the Egyptian coast, before bribing his way onto a cargo ship along the Mediterranean towards Morocco.
Walker is then being driven across Africa for three days – across Mauritania, The Gambia and Guinea – arriving in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
Chronicling his journey on social media: ‘Coz I’ve got no passport I have to take these mad routes to get to Sierra Leone.
‘I got a plane to a remote field in Antwerp. Then a flight from Belgium to near Cairo.
‘Now I’m heading to Morocco via Port Said and then driving across the Sahara into Sierra Leone.’
In one video, taken on a ship, Walker shows a bag stuffed full of £50 notes.
He said: ‘I’ve just found out this cargo ship is going by Morocco, so I’m happy. I’ve just had to pay a member of staff. Luckily enough I’ve come with a bag full of f***ing money. This bag is stuffed to the brim with fifties.’
Walker said he was arrested near Bournemouth, Dorset, on February 14 and bailed on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs.
In one video, taken on a ship, Walker shows a bag stuffed full of £50 notes
Walker is then being driven across Africa for three days – across Mauritania, The Gambia and Guinea – arriving in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone
Walker, who has more than 100 offences under his belt, previously taunted police by releasing a video with a step-by-step guide on how to flee the country back in 2018
During Walker’s previous escapade, where he showed people how to flee the country, the criminal, fled to Sierra Leone on an 5,000 epic journey
Walker has spent most of his adult life in and out of jail.
He was sentenced to four-and-a-half years jail in 2008 after being caught peddling heroin and crack cocaine on the streets of Widnes and Runcorn in Cheshire. His gang earned up to £2,500 a day before being caught in a police sting that saw £12million of drugs seized along with luxury cars, bundles of cash and jewellery.
He made front page headlines in 2014 when he publicly threatened Luton Town and former England ace Barkley, 30, then an Everton player.
The sinister Twitter message, sparked in a row over an ex-girlfriend of the footballer in 2014, said: ‘Inbox me a number for you, ya little rat!
‘You know wot this is about so don’t play stupid or your footie career will come to an end!’
In 2019, he was slammed after it was revealed he had set up his own YouTube channel from behind bars.
The videos, each captioned ‘Prisoners’ Got Talent’, were posted to Walker’s social media account within the past six months
In one video, Walker claims to have filmed ‘camera shy’ Charles Bronson – who has spent much of the past four decades imprisoned for a series of violent crimes.
A caption alongside the video said: ‘Big Charlie Bronson becomes camera shy while I video him. All 6ft5ins & 20 stone of him.’
In another string of videos from his jail cell, the convicted drug dealer went viral after hosting his own ‘Prisoners’ Got Talent’ show in 2022.
It shows him sitting in a cell in HMP Forest Bank, Salford, as he asks an inmate to introduce himself and explain what his talent is, just like a judge on Britain’s Got Talent.
The man’s hip-thrusting rendition of Edwin Starr’s War is branded ‘not good enough’ by another inmate-turned-judge, so the eager performer ties up his top to sing Milkshake by Kelis.
Drug dealer and disqualified driver Sam Walker hosts the illegal TV shows behind bars in jail
One shows him sitting in a cell in HMP Forest Bank, Salford, asking a man what his talent is
He claims to have met Sierra Leone’s vice-president, Mohammed Juldeh Jalloh, during his last visit, and has spent thousands installing a 5,000-litre fresh water tank and new water pipes in Freetown after seeing ‘men, women and children dying’.
Walker faces being jailed for breaching the terms of his bail upon his return to the UK.