ROGER RABBIT GENIUS DIES AT 86
A DRUG dealer has sparked outrage by becoming Britain’s first prison Youtuber.
Sam Walker, 36, is building a moneyspinning brand from his cell by getting pals to post web videos made inside.
They include violent attacks by other lags and Walker interviewing other cons at category B Leeds prison.
An insider told the Sunday People: “It’s disgusting he could end up profiting from his crime. He’s clearly an attention seeker, desperate to be famous.”
His clips have been viewed thousands of times on Youtube, the world’s biggest video sharing website.
Youtube stars make money each time a user plays one of their clips.
Walker, from Liverpool, is believed to have racked up around 63,500 plays.
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Experts say users can expect that number to net almost £ 1,000 from advertisers – although it is not known whether Walker or his associates on the outside have received any cash.
Sources say he has been inspired by stars such as Joe Sugg, who got a lucrative gig on TV’S Strictly Come Dancing after finding fame posting web videos.
A Youtube channel which collects all Walker’s videos has been set up while he serves 33 months.
He was jailed last year on drug and driving charges, plus skipping court by allegedly hiring a private plane to fly to West Africa.
In one video posted on his account a man is badly beaten by other lags. Walker boasts about his unusual address on his twitter biography, giving it as HMP ACCLAIMED animator Richard Williams who helped make Who Framed Roger Rabbit such a magical hit has died aged 86.
The triple Oscar and Bafta winner passed away at his home in Bristol.
He was animation director on the 1988 blockbuster creating characters including Roger and Jessica Rabbit.
The live-action animated film starring Bob Hoskins, saw Leeds, LS12 2TJ. He adds: “Someone is posting on my behalf as I can’t post when I’m away.”
On Friday, when approached by the Sunday People, sources at the Ministry of Justice insisted that Walker does not have a phone in his cell.
But hours later, Walker posted a selfie-style video which appeared to have been taken inside.
Yesterday an MOJ spokeswoman would not discuss Walker’s case.
She said: “We do not tolerate mobile phones behind bars and are spending an extra £ 100million on blocking technology, airport-style security and new scanners to stop phones getting in.”
Walker reportedly has at least 45 convictions for 130 offences. His rap sheet includes doing up to 100mph in a BMW in a police chase on Merseyside.
Last February he admitted hiding a mobile phone in his bottom while he was being held at HMP Liverpool.
Two years ago during a brief period of freedom Walker hit the headlines by footing the bill for eight homeless people to spend two nights at a luxury hotel.
He said he collected them from streets around Liverpool city centre.
He added that he wanted to give something back to people in a situation that “we could all find ourselves in at any point”. Williams win a Bafta as well as two Oscars.
He also animated title sequences for the 70s comedy classics The Return Of The Pink Panther and The Pink Panther Strikes Again and worked on 1967 Bond spoof movie Casino Royale.
Williams credited Snow White – which he saw at aged five – as having a “tremendous impression” on him. He told the BBC in 2008: “I always wanted, when I was a kid, to get to Disney. I was a clever little fellow so I took my drawings and I eventually got in.
“They did a story on me, and I was in there for two days, and you can imagine what it was like for a kid.”
He was advised to learn how to draw properly and admitted he “lost all interest in animation” until he was 23, when he threw himself into art.
His first film, The Little Island, was released in 1958 and scooped a Bafta, and his animated adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in 1971 saw him take home his first Oscar.
Williams, who was born in Toronto, Canada, moved to Britain in the 1950s.
During his lengthy career, Williams also wrote a how- to book called The Animator’s Survival Kit and was animating and writing until the day he died.