Deng Chol Majek had been in the UK for less than three months when he murdered hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte. Almost exactly a year ago, he stabbed the 27-year-old mother 23 times with a screwdriver while she waited for a train at Bescot Stadium station, Walsall. After throwing Whyte’s phone into the river, Majek left her for dead. He then went to buy some beers and returned to the Park Inn Hotel, where Whyte was employed and which had been turned into an asylum centre. One witness described him as “drinking, smoking and just chatting amongst his group of friends … having a good time.”
