Sister speaks of ‘catastrophic’ loss of hotel worker stabbed at Walsall station

Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, was working at the Park Inn by Radisson hotel where Deng Chol Majek is understood to have been staying. Photograph: British Transport Police/PA

The sister of Rhiannon Skye Whyte, who was fatally stabbed while waiting on the platform of a Walsall train station, a two-minute walk from her workplace, has called the impact of losing her “catastrophic”.

Whyte, 27, was seriously injured at Bescot Stadium railway station on 20 October while on the phone to her best friend, after finishing a shift at a nearby Radisson hotel.