The mother of hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte who was murdered by a Sudanese asylum seeker said urgent action needed to be taken to stop small boat arrivals or more people will be murdered and raped in the UK.
Siobhan Whyte blamed Sir Keir Starmer and the Government for the continued arrival of boats on the coastline from France, as she spoke at a Reform UK press conference in Warwickshire.
Her daughter was murdered by Deng Majek in Walsall in October 2024.
Ms Whyte had worked at the hotel where he had been housed while his asylum claim was processed.
Majek followed her when she left work one evening, and stabbed her to death at the Bescot Stadium railway station.
He was jailed for life earlier this year, with a minimum term of 29 years.
Ms Whyte previously spoke out against undocumented migrants outside Coventry Crown Court after the sentencing.
Speaking alongside the party’s leader Nigel Farage in Bedworth, Ms Whyte said: “He took Rhiannon’s life in 90 seconds, stabbed her through the brain stem.
“He has never shown any remorse, he called forensics liars, he just didn’t care, he didn’t tell us why, he just denied everything.
“So we’ve had to live with that.
“Her little boy’s been left without a mum, my children have been left without a sister, and I’ve lost my daughter through these scumbags that were allowed into this country illegally.
“Something needs to be done, they need to stop allowing them in, because it’s not Rhiannon, who will be next.
“Sadly there’s children, there’s young girls getting raped. When’s the next murder, and a family having to go through what we’re going through?”
She was later asked by GB News who she blamed for the issue.
“Starmer and the Government,” Ms Whyte replied.
Speaking afterwards Mr Farage said: “Who next? There is nothing being done to change any of this.
“There is no plan with the French, and it doesn’t really matter how much money we send them, because we’ve given them £800 million to stop this since 2014, and I think cases like this genuinely outrage the British public as they should.
“This murder, this death was wholly unnecessary in every way.”
Ms Whyte later added: “Stop them coming in.
“If you let them in, do not let them out onto our streets, until we know who they are, what diseases they carry, what criminal background they have, because we don’t know?
“It’s back to the scumbag that killed my daughter. He lied. They’ve all got the same generic birthday. He lied continuously.”
She continued: “They’re more worried about the people dying on the boats than the people of our own country.
“So either stop them, send them straight back, or if they have to come in, vet them, do not let them out, do not let them walk out streets until we know that they’re not going to commit some kind of crime.”
A Labour Party spokesperson, responding to the press conference said: “This Government is taking decisive action to bear down on small boat crossings and restore control of our borders.
“We have already stopped over 42,000 illegal migrants attempting to cross the Channel since the general election, and removed or deported nearly 60,000 people with no right to be here.
“But we are going further, removing the incentives that draw people into dangerous crossings and ramping up removals, so the system is fair, controlled and works in the national interest.”
It came as Reform UK said it would stop issuing visas to anyone from countries who ask for slavery reparations from the UK.
The party’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf announced the policy on Tuesday, as he described the demands for compensation as “insulting”.
He said 3.8 million visas have been issued to people from countries calling for reparations over the last two decades.
Mr Farage said on Tuesday: “There are parts of our past we wouldn’t be proud of, and there are parts of our past we’ve got every right to be immensely proud of, including uniquely being the one country that spent four decades on the high seas and the loss of thousands of sailors, and vast amounts of money, driving slavery off the world’s oceans.
“We need a sense of proportion. It’s about time we stood up and said ‘enough’.”
A Labour Party spokesman said: “This is a desperate gimmick from Reform that would do nothing to restore order and control to Britain’s borders.
“That’s this Labour Government’s focus and that’s why we are taking decisive action to tackle surges in asylum claims by imposing an emergency brake on study and work visas from countries abusing the system, slashing £1 billion from the asylum support bill, and halving the length of refugee protection to 30 months.
“Nobody will take Nigel Farage seriously on this when his party is full of opportunistic Tories who failed on immigration when they were in government.
“Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick presided over record levels of migration and all but lost control of the system – you can’t trust them now.”
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