Imprisoned Liverpool drug dealer Sam Walker's YouTube account will not be taken down, according to reports.
Career criminal Walker has spent plenty of time behind bars at various prisons and has managed to post videos on YouTube from several institutions since 2018. In January, the Daily Express reported that his YouTube channel has more than 20,000 followers.
In March 2020, he posted a video as a bid to show people "what prison is really like". In the video, which is believed to have been taken at Cambridgeshire prison HMP Whitemoor, Walker introduces himself before talking about his move to the category A men's prison.
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Walker, 38, of Beetham Plaza, Liverpool, was jailed again on March 24, when a judge at Chester Crown Court sentenced him to 15 months behind bars. He had been stopped on the M56 near Runcorn with 3kg of cannabis inside a Maserati.
Following the stop, Walker was arrested and charged with a number of driving offences and over the cannabis haul . He was also charged with possession of counterfeit currency after £3,800 of fake bank notes were also found inside the car.
Walker pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply cannabis, driving while disqualified and without insurance. He pleaded not guilty to holding counterfeit currency, claiming the money was used for playing poker with friends.
A recent YouTube video, which the Guardian says "purports to be filmed by a friend", shows Walker escorted by a prison guard for his trial at Chester Crown Court.
The fact that Walker has still been able to post videos has twice this year led the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) digital media investigations unit to ask YouTube to take down his channel, according to the Guardian. However, YouTube has reportedly refused both times.
A Prison Service spokesperson told the Guardian: "We will continue to press YouTube to remove this content. Anyone found in possession of a phone will face extra time behind bars." The Guardian's report adds that YouTube suggested that Walker’s prison videos remain available to view as he has not broken any of the platform's rules.
In a previous video, Walker had suggested that he made £1,700 in a month from his videos, but reports state that YouTube has now stopped being able to earn money from his content.
