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Matthew Cooper

Asylum seeker accused of murder tells jury he ‘never had a problem with anyone’

Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Deng Chol Majek giving evidence at Wolverhampton Crown Court, where he is charged with the murder of hotel worker Rhiannon Skye Whyte, who was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver at Walsall’s Bescot Stadium Station in October last year. Picture date: Tuesday October 21, 2025. - (PA Wire)

An asylum seeker accused of murdering a hotel worker has told a jury he was not at the train station where she was fatally stabbed and had no reason to want to harm her or kill her.

Deng Chol Majek told his trial he was “staying in the hotel, outside” at the time Rhiannon Whyte was attacked, and had never spoken to her during around three months living at Walsall’s Park Inn hotel.

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