Man Convicted of Murdering Hotel Worker
A 19-year-old man, Deng Chol Majek, has been convicted of murdering a 27-year-old hotel worker, Rhiannon Whyte.
Majek followed Whyte to a railway station and stabbed her multiple times with a screwdriver on October 20, 2024, after she finished her shift at the Park Inn by Radisson Hotel in Walsall.
- Whyte had been working at a hotel housing asylum seekers, where Majek had been staying.
- The attack occurred on the empty platform of Bescot Stadium railway station just after 11pm.
- A friend of Whyte's, who was on the phone with her at the time, heard the frenzied attack.
Whyte suffered 23 stab wounds to the head and left side of her chest and arm, and never recovered consciousness, dying in hospital on October 23, 2024.
Today, Majek was convicted of murder and having an offensive weapon following a trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court, which began on October 13, 2025.
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Author's summary: Man convicted of murdering hotel worker with screwdriver.