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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robyn Vinter

Asylum seeker accused of killing Walsall hotel worker seen ‘clearly excited’ after attack, jury told

Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27: she has orange-dyed hair pulled back from her face in a ponytail or plait, and wears a pink patterned short-sleeved dress. In this close-up picture she is standing in front of dark greenery or bushes.
Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, worked at the Park Inn hotel in Wolverhampton, where her alleged killer was living. Photograph: British Transport Police/PA

An asylum seeker accused of stabbing a hotel worker 23 times with a screwdriver and leaving her to die was seen dancing and laughing in the aftermath of the attack, a murder trial jury has heard.

Deng Chol Majek, who claims to be 19, was “clearly excited about what he had done” after inflicting fatal wounds on Rhiannon Skye Whyte, who worked in the hotel where he was living, Wolverhampton crown court heard.

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