In July 2024, a Sudanese man named Deng Chol Majek entered the UK illegally, crossing the Channel in a small boat. Majek travelled through Libya and Italy before arriving in Germany. There he claimed asylum, which was refused. So he made his way to Britain. Majek claimed to be 18, and applied for asylum here. He was taken to a taxpayer-funded hotel, the Park Inn in Walsall, where he lived at our expense. During his time at the Park Inn, Majek was reported to hotel security having ‘spookily’ stared at three female members of staff for prolonged periods.

On 20 October 2024, Majek spent the evening staring ‘intimidatingly’ at female members of staff. Rhiannon Whyte, a 27-year-old mother, was one of the women working that evening. When she finished her shift she left the hotel and walked to nearby Bescot railway station. Majek followed her. At the station he attacked Rhiannon with a screwdriver, stabbing her 23 times. Eleven of those blows injured her skull, with one wound so deep that it........

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