An asylum seeker from Sudan danced and laughed after murdering a Walsall hotel worker in a "vicious and frenzied attack" on a British train station platform, having followed her there.
Prosecutors allege Deng Majek, who claims to be 19, stabbed 27-year-old Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver (penetrating her skull 11 times, the death blow damaging her brain stem) at Bescot Stadium railway station on 20 October 2024. She died in hospital three days later.
Opening the case for the prosecution at Wolverhampton Crown Court, Michelle Heeley KC told the jury that the defendant was "clearly excited about what he had done".
Mr Majek denies murder (CCTV, her blood on his clothes, his DNA under her nails - all say otherwise).
The defendant had been living at the hotel, which houses asylum seekers, while Ms Whyte had worked there for about three months.
The court heard her job included cleaning and serving food and co-workers could not recall any issue which might have led to the attack.
"There had been an issue about some broken biscuits with some of the residents but nothing serious," Ms Heeley said.
The prosecution said CCTV showed the defendant staring at Ms Whyte, before he followed her from the hotel to the railway station when she finished her shift at 23:00 BST.
"He had been hanging around waiting for her to leave and waited until she was on her own before he followed her," Ms Heeley said.
"… he was seen on CCTV cameras closing the gap on her…"
Ms Heeley said: "It was then [when she reached the train platform] that the prosecution say that this defendant attacked her."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy902djzv2o
The primary job of a government is to protect its people, not recklessly expose them to lethal dangers when they are just going about their lives - in this case actually serving the "asylum-seeking" immigrant as a job.