Asylum seeker denies being at railway station where Walsall hotel worker was killed

Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, who worked at the Park Inn hotel, near Walsall, died three days after being stabbed last October. Photograph: Family photograph/PA

An asylum seeker accused of murdering a hotel worker told a jury in Wolverhampton he had no reason to want to harm or kill her and was not at the scene of the attack.

Deng Chol Majek, who said he was 19, denies attacking and murdering Rhiannon Skye Whyte with a screwdriver at Bescot Stadium railway station, West Midlands, last October.