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Asylum seeker ‘danced and laughed after stabbing woman 23 times’

An asylum seeker stabbed a woman who worked at the hotel he was staying at 23 times with a screwdriver, a murder trial was told.

Deng Chol Majek, who is from Sudan and claims to be 19, followed Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, from the Park Inn hotel, which was being used to house asylum seekers, to Bescot Stadium station, where he attacked her on October 20 last year, Wolverhampton crown court was told.

Majek stabbed Whyte “over and over again” with a screwdriver, mainly to the head, left her “bleeding to death and then casually went back to his hotel”, Michelle Heeley KC, for the prosecution, told the court.

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