Overview
- Mr Justice Soole sentenced Deng Chol Majek at Coventry Crown Court for the 2024 stabbing at Bescot Stadium railway station.
- CCTV and DNA evidence linked him to the attack, and jurors returned a unanimous guilty verdict after just over two hours of deliberation.
- Prosecutors said he followed Whyte from Walsall’s Park Inn and used a concealed screwdriver to inflict 23 wounds; she died three days later from a brain stem injury.
- The court rejected his claim to be a teenager, with assessments placing him in his mid‑20s at the time of the murder.
- Footage showed him disposing of evidence, buying alcohol, and dancing back at the hotel, and Whyte’s family condemned his lack of remorse and pressed for tougher controls on asylum accommodation and border security.