The mother of a hotel worker who was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver by a Sudanese asylum seeker says she holds Sir Keir Starmer responsible, saying today: 'He's got blood on his hands'.
Deng Chol Majek is believed to have entered the UK by small boat less than three months before launching a frenzied assault on mother-of-one Rhiannon Whyte at Bescot Stadium railway station in Walsall on October 20 2024.
Mother-of-one Ms Whyte had just finished her shift at the asylum hotel where Majek was staying; he was seen dancing in the hours after killing her, and lied about everything from his age through to his culpability for the murder.
The 'demonic and inhuman' Sudanese national, as he was described by Ms Whyte's family, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 29 years at Coventry Crown Court on Friday.
Speaking to GB News on Monday, Ms Whyte's mother Siobhan Whyte said that she laid the blame for her daughter's death at the Prime Minister's door, saying he 'needs to be held accountable' for the failure of his asylum policy.
Asked who she is angry at, she said: 'Starmer, the Government, for allowing this to happen. There's so many cases that are brushed under the carpet.
'We have sat quiet for 15 months for Rhiannon's sake because I wanted justice. Starmer needs to be held accountable. If it was his family, Sadiq Khan, if it was their family, this wouldn't happen. This needs to stop.
'There's cases of poor men, poor children, women being raped, attacked, beaten, murdered on a daily basis.'
Siobhan Whyte, mother of asylum hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte, says she holds Keir Starmer and the Government responsible for her daughter's death
Rhiannon Whyte, a mother-of-one, was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver by a migrant staying at the hotel where she worked
Deng Chol Majek (pictured) has been handed a life sentence. He has maintained his innocence in the face of overwhelming evidence against him
She added: 'Rhiannon's not the first case and sadly she won't be the last. But we were handed a life sentence the day I had to watch my daughter die. And where is Starmer? He's got blood on his hands.'
Asked what she would say to Sir Keir if she met him, Ms Whyte said: 'Would he be sitting there flying off to China and doing all this if it was his child, his wife, his niece, his family member?
'No, he would make a firm stance on it then, wouldn't he?'
The mother said: 'And I won't back down from it either because he's got the blood of Rhiannon, and these other women and men, children, on his hands.
'He needs to take accountability and he needs to take his head out his backside and stand up and realise what is going on in his country.'
She added that she would hope to meet the PM face-to-face, but says she has had no contact from the Government 'officially'.
Majek is said to have tracked Ms Whyte to the station after she finished a shift at the Park Inn hotel, where he had been living, at 11pm before inflicting 19 wounds to her head, including a fatal brain stem injury.
CCTV played during his trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court showed he disappeared from view on to a deserted platform for 90 seconds at around 11.18pm to attack Ms Whyte, 27, whose son was aged five at the time.
She 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 after the attack.
Cowardly Majek refused to admit to the killing in the face of overwhelming forensic and circumstantial evidence that put him at the scene.
Ms Whyte told GB News that Starmer (pictured leaving Downing Street today) had 'blood on his hands'
Ms Whyte, 27, a mother-of-one, was attacked moments after leaving work and died in hospital with her family by her side
As Ms Whyte lay gravely injured on the station platform, Majek was seen laughing and dancing at the hotel
CCTV showed him throwing Ms Whyte's mobile phone into a river. Her blood was found on his clothing and her DNA was also found under his fingernails.
Despite this, he told the court of CCTV showing him visiting a shop: 'That's not me.'
Majek's lies continued to unravel during the trial as he sought to make a mockery of the justice system.
It emerged that when he arrived in the UK in July 2024 he told authorities he was 18 years old.
When he was sentenced last week, the judge concluded that his real age was somewhere around 28.
Mr Justice Soole, sentencing Majek, said: 'The court is left with no explanation of what possessed you to murder a member of the hotel staff who, together with her colleagues, had been serving and helping you and your fellow residents.
'Having regard to every aspect of your conduct, before during and after the assault on Rhiannon, I am sure that your intent was to kill.'
Ms Whyte added that while she was 'happy' with the sentence, 'it will never be enough. I'm going to be honest, if the death penalty was in I would get him up [for it] straight away.
'It will never be enough but he will never be out to hurt anybody else.'
Last week, Rhiannon's sister Emma told the Daily Mail: 'Keir Starmer would not listen, he does not give a s*** about us. He’s the worst thing that ever happened to us.’
The Prime Minister's official spokesman said: 'This is clearly an appalling case but as I say, I'm not going to comment on the details of that case.
'Broadly our action on illegal migration is clear and we completely accept that there is more to do and that is where our focus is.'
He said the Government had returned 50,000 people with no right to stay in the UK and had struck a 'number of international deals' to 'combat illegal migration'.
Pressed on whether Sir Keir would comment on what the family are enduring, his spokesman said 'clearly our sympathies are with the family of those involved' but that 'I'm not going to comment on the details of that case'.
