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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matthew Cooper

Asylum seeker convicted of murdering hotel worker in ‘cowardly’ station stabbing

A mugshot of Deng Chol Majek, (British Transport Police/PA) -

An “utterly callous” asylum seeker seen dancing and laughing after stabbing a hotel worker 23 times on a railway station platform has been found guilty of murder.

Deng Chol Majek, who is believed to have entered the UK by small boat less than three months before launching a frenzied attack on Rhiannon Whyte, showed no emotion in the dock as the verdict was returned.

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