An asylum seeker has today been jailed for the murder of Rhiannon Whyte who was stabbed 23 times at Walsall’s Bescot Stadium railway station in October 2024.
Described by his victim’s family as ‘demonic and inhuman’, Deng Chol Majek is thought to have entered the country by small boat less than three months before launching a frenzied assault on Rhiannon Whyte.
Passing sentence at Coventry Crown Court, Mr Justice Soole told Majek he had brought ‘devastation’ to the family of the hotel worker as he imposed a life sentence for murder.
Also on tonight’s Evening News:
• The U.S. Department of Justice has released more than 3 million pages of evidence – as well as a huge numbers of photos and videos – as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files
• Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said that China has agreed to lift sanctions on several British MPs and peers – and rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘very dangerous’ business claims
• Two Army officers have been charged over their conduct in the case of British Army Gunner Jaysley Beck who was sexually assaulted and then took her own life
• Reports find that children born in town at the centre of the UK’s highest-profile toxic waste scandal aren’t more at risk of cancer – but campaigners remain sceptical
•The late author and journalist Dame Jilly Cooper is celebrated at a star-studded memorial service
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