![]() ![]() “The story they concocted in that call, and which both relied on from that moment on, even until now, was that Scott had stopped the car on the short drive home to confront Bea about her allegations, that Bea jumped out of the car when he pulled over, and that she ran off. She said the “only sensible conclusion that can be drawn” from that telephone call was that Scott Walker told Sarah Walker he had killed Bernadette and “needed her help, immediately, to cover up Bea’s disappearance and death, and to buy them both time to work out what should happen next”. Wilding said the first call Scott Walker made when his phone reconnected to the network was to Sarah Walker, and that they spoke for more than nine minutes. “The prosecution say that in that hour and a half, he killed Bea,” she said. She said Scott Walker’s phone, “which was usually in regular use”, was off between 11.23am and 12.54pm on 18 July. Sarah Walker reported Bernadette as missing to police in the early hours of 21 July.Īccusing the pair of collaborating to cover up the teenager’s death, the prosecutor, Lisa Wilding QC, said Sarah Walker had sent messages from Bernadette’s phone to give the impression she was still alive. He collected her from the house the following day, 18 July 2020, the day she was last seen alive. The court heard that Bernadette was sent to stay with Scott Walker’s parents overnight the day after telling her mother about the abuse “while things calmed down a little”. She had admitted sending messages from her daughter’s phone after she disappeared and providing false information to the police relating to her disappearance. Sarah Walker was found guilty of two counts of perverting the course of justice, “knowing or believing” Bernadette to be dead. The prosecution said Scott Walker had formed an “unholy alliance” with Bernadette’s mother, who was his ex-partner, to cover up the girl’s death. Prosecutors said he killed Bernadette to “prevent her pursuing her allegations of sexual abuse any further”, and that her mother did not believe her accusations. The jury heard that Bernadette – who called Scott Walker “Dad” even though he was not her biological father – claimed to her mother two days before her disappearance that he had been sexually abusing her for several years. ![]()
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