Asylum seeker jailed for at least 29 years for murdering Walsall hotel worker

Deng Chol Majek stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times in sadistic' attack at railway station

A Sudanese asylum seeker has been jailed for at least 29 years for the sadistic" murder of a woman who was working at the hotel where he lived.

Deng Chol Majek is believed to have entered the UK by small boat less than three months before stabbing Rhiannon Whyte, 27, with a screwdriver 23 times at Bescot Stadium station in Walsall in October 2024.