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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Matthew Cooper

Asylum seeker was ‘staring spookily’ at hotel worker on day of fatal stabbing

A figure alleged to be Deng Chol Majek leaving Bescot Stadium station in Walsall following the attack on Rhiannon Skye Whyte, which was shown to the jury (British Transport Police/PA) - (PA Media)

An asylum seeker was seen staring at a hotel worker “spookily” and “like he was planning something” hours before she was fatally stabbed on a railway station platform, a murder trial jury has heard.

Deng Chol Majek, who claims to be 19 and is originally from Sudan, was “just fixated at the bar area” where Rhiannon Skye Whyte was handing out snacks on the evening of Sunday October 20 last year, one of her colleagues told Wolverhampton Crown Court.

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