An asylum seeker has been convicted of murdering a hotel worker, who was stabbed at a train station.
Deng Chol Majek, who claims to be 19, will be sentenced at a later date after a jury found him guilty of murdering Rhiannon Whyte at Walsall’s Bescot Stadium station on October 20 last year.
Majek, who is believed to have entered the UK by small boat less than three months before he attacked Rhiannon Whyte, showed no emotion in the dock as the verdict was returned.
Jurors at Wolverhampton Crown Court deliberated for two hours and five minutes on Friday before unanimously convicting Majek of murder and possessing a screwdriver as an offensive weapon.
Ms Whyte, who worked at the Park Inn Hotel where Majek was staying, was stabbed 23 times. She was waiting for a train home after work at approximately 11.15 pm.
The 27-year-old died in hospital three days later, after being found injured in a shelter on the platform by the driver and guard of a train which pulled in about five minutes later
During the trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court, jurors were shown CCTV footage of Majek appearing to stare at Ms Whyte and two other female colleagues that day.
He then brushed into her deliberately at the hotel entrance shortly before the end of her shift, prosecutors said.
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