forced his way into a woman’s house in Bulwell, Nottingham, to call a taxi. When the taxi arrived, Parfitt, ran to the vehicle and forced the driver into the passenger seat. Pc Walker had been called to the scene and observed Parfitt beginning to speed away. Pc Walker sprinted to the driver’s door and tried to grab the keys from the car’s ignition. As Pc Walker and his German shepherd Kai were pulled along St Albans Road in Bulwell. Observers heard him screamed at Parfitt: “Stop it or you will kill me.” Parfitt accelerated to 30mph, dragging the officer and his dog 100 yards as he swerved to try to throw them off. Eventually Pc Walker was flung into a concrete bollard, suffering severe head injuries. Pc walker died at Queen’s Medical Centre hospital two days later on January 9, 2003
David Andrew Parfitt, a dropout from school, had trouble with the law since the age of 14 years old. In 1991 at the age of 14 he did bodily harm against a fellow school pupil, two counts of criminal damage, threatening behavior, possessing an offensive weapon and shoplifting. He was ordered to pay $44.47 and do 24 hours of community service. Fourteen months later in 1992 at the age of 15 he was back in youth court for aggravated vehicle taking, a series of driving offenses ( reckless driving, no insurance, and driving without a license) burglary and theft of a cycle. He was sent to youth offenders institution for four months. At the age of fifteen he was known to drink as many as fifteen Budweisers a night and was also using marijuana, LSD, amphetamines and benzodiazepines and sedative drugs as valium. In 1993 at the age of 16 he was back in youth court for theft of a cycle and ordered to pay $741.22. At the age of 16-17 in January of 1994 he was convicted again for burglary and theft of a home and failing to surrender to bail and to attend 22 hours at a center. In September of 1994 he was convicted a second time for actual body harm when unprovoked, punched his victim in the face several times causing injuries requiring five stitches and again for aggravated vehicle taking with driving offences of driving while disqualified and no insurance. He was ordered to do 40 hours of community service and pay $ 222.36 compensation. In November of 1994 another series of driving offences ( two counts of driving while disqualified, two counts of driving without insurance and a minor road traffic offence and the court sent him again to a young offenders institution for five months and disqualifying him from driving for two years. In November of 1995 at the age of 18 he was back in court, but this time as an adult. He attempted to steal a vehicle, obstructing the police, handling, driving while disqualified, using a vehicle without insurance and failing to surrender to custody. He was placed on probation for eighteen months. The first seven months of his order was acceptable but there after failed and breach proceeding were instituted in October of 1996. In January of 1997 the court was informed he was complying with his order. However his conditional discharge of one year was substituted by the magistrates for the fourteen month probation order. Two months later in March of 1997 he was back in court for failing to surrender to custody and breach of peace. He was fined $111.00 and bound over for twelve months. Four months later in July of 1997 he was back in court for criminal damage, threatening behavior and breach of his binding over order. He was ordered to pay compensation and ordered to sixty hours community service and probation supervision for twelve months. In March of 1999 he was back in court for twelve offences, eleven of them committed while on bail for breach of the combination order imposed in July of 1997 and failing to appear in court proceedings relating to that breach, for two offences of obtaining property by deception, ( ordered products from mail order catalog using a false name ) driving with excess alcohol, two counts of driving while disqualified, taking a motor vehicle without consent of his place of employment, failing to stop after an accident, two counts of driving without insurance, criminal damage, resisting a Pc and breach of his combination order and sent to prison for five months. In June of 1999 just after being released from prison, he was again sentenced to five months in prison for driving while disqualified and with no insurance. In May of 2000, he was convicted of affray, three counts of assault, and assault with the intent of resisting arrest. He once again drove while drunk, again crashed into a stationary vehicle, again fled the scene, was arrested and taken to a hospital where he escaped custody and initiated a violent confrontation with people at the hospital. One month later he was back in court for driving while disqualified, no insurance and failing to provide a specimen. Again he was sent to prison for four months. On September 21, 2000, on being sentenced, he sought to escape but was chased and apprehended.
On December 11, 2004 a jury found David Andrew Parfitt guilty in Birmingham Crown Court of manslaughter in the death of Pc Ged Walker on a majority 10 to two verdict but cleared him of murder. He was jailed for 12 years and given a consecutive one-year sentence for other offences. Parfitt had been on probation from a previous sentence for robberies from elderly women at the time of PC Walker’s death. Parfitt is up for parole in October of 2009 after serving half his sentence.
