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Rhiannon Whyte mother blasts Labour for letting illegals roam free

Rhiannon Whyte’s mother tells GB News she is serving a life sentence and demands detention of illegal arrivals two years after the murder.

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Siobhan Whyte says she is serving a life sentence after illegal migrant Deng Majek murdered her daughter Rhiannon Whyte, and she has told GB News Labour is still “allowing these illegals to come over” without proper controls two years on.

Rhiannon, a young mother working at the Park Inn Hotel housing asylum seekers, was attacked on 20 October 2024 as she waited for her train home from Bescot Stadium railway station. Majek, a Sudanese migrant staying at the same hotel, followed her across the road, through the car park and onto the platform, then stabbed her more than 20 times with a screwdriver. She died three days later from a brain stem injury.

CCTV showed Majek staring at Rhiannon earlier that day as she handed out snacks. A witness at Wolverhampton Crown Court said staff felt scared and “worried he was going to do something that night”, and that they told hotel security they “all felt intimidated”. After the attack Majek threw her phone in the river, bought alcohol, then returned to the hotel where footage captured him laughing and dancing while emergency crews fought to save her.

Siobhan described the night the call came: “My phone was going, ringing late at night, and I thought it was her to tell me she was on her way home, and it was her friend, Emma, to say that they’d heard screaming.” Police said the injuries were life-threatening. At hospital the family learned she had been stabbed in the head. “On the Tuesday, they did further tests and then that evening, they told us not to leave. We asked if she could be an organ donor, but I was told no, because she was evidence, so he took that away from her as well.”

Forensic evidence linked Majek beyond doubt: Rhiannon’s blood on his jacket, trousers, shoes and jewellery, and matching DNA under his fingernails. Jurors took just two hours and five minutes to return a unanimous guilty verdict in October 2025. He denied everything. Siobhan recalled his arrogance in court and a prison refusal to appear by video link with the words “today is not the day”. She wants him to suffer, not die: “He was dancing on her grave, I think.”

Rhiannon’s Law and the Home Office response

Britain cannot keep housing undocumented arrivals in hotels and HMOs near ordinary workers and then act surprised when the worst happens. Detention, proper identity, criminal and medical checks, and swift removal for those who fail them are basic self-respect for a country that still claims to control its own borders. Human rights talk that ignores the rights of British victims is an insult.

Siobhan is now pushing Rhiannon’s Law: detain undocumented asylum seekers while claims are processed, hold them in barracks away from schools, children and women, and deport those who fail the checks. “If the government are going to keep allowing these illegals to come over, they should be stopped, they should be detained, they should be medically checked, ID checked, criminally checked, and not allowed out to wander.” She met Border Security Minister Anna Turley on 3 September and left hopeful, only for boats to arrive in Portsmouth days later. “It felt like we’d just been kicked in the teeth.”

The government points to more than 80,000 returns since the July 2024 election, over 48,000 prevented Channel crossings and 1,100 boats and engines seized. A Home Office spokesperson called the murder abhorrent, noted Majek’s life sentence, and said the department is “bearing down on small boat crossings, removing record numbers of foreign criminals, and closing every asylum hotel in the country”. Siobhan’s answer is blunt: justice in court does not end her sentence. “I will serve life because he’s taken my daughter away.” The campaign for Rhiannon’s Law continues.

Original source: GB NEWS


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