Few details are known about Deng Chol Majek’s journey from Africa to Walsall, but he claimed to have left a pregnant wife behind in war-torn Sudan while fleeing from a solider who wanted to marry his sister.
The only agreed facts relating to his background presented to the jury who convicted him of murdering Rhiannon Whyte were that he had no previous convictions or cautions recorded against him, and that he had been arrested in Kaiserslautern in Germany in August 2023.
