Rhiannon, who worked at a hotel, was v1olently att*cked by Deng Majek;….Nearly two years later, Rhiannon Whyte’s family stayed largely silent. But after the man convicted over her d3ath was later given a 29-year prison sentence, her mother began speaking out about one detail that left the nation stunned….see more
Police ‘guided’ the family of a hotel worker in ‘toning down’ their public statements after she was murdered by an asylum seeker – in case their words led to anti-immigration rioting.
Rhiannon Whyte, 27, was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver by Sudanese national Deng Majek while waiting at a train station.
Majek, 28, spent the night dancing around the Park Inn Hotel in Bescot, Walsall, where Rhiannon worked and which was being used to house asylum seekers. He was jailed for 29 years in January.
Her death came two months after the fatal stabbings of three young girls in Southport in July 2024 by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, a British citizen of Rwandan descent.
Anti-migrant riots broke out following misinformation which was circulated online claiming that Rudakubana was a Muslim asylum seeker who had recently arrived in Britain on a small boat.
Now Rhiannon’s mother, Siobhan, has claimed police said they didn’t want ‘another Southport’ when she told them her daughter’s life support was to be turned off.
She said: ‘Did they tell us what to say? No. Did they guide us so it didn’t look so aggressive? Maybe. I was aggressive – they toned it down.’
Ms Whyte – who stresses that she is grateful for the help she received from the police in the aftermath of her daughter’s death – added: ‘I think they didn’t want violence… they didn’t want a riot.’
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Rhiannon Whyte, 27, was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver in October 2024. Pictured is Rhiannon in a British Transport Police handout released at the time
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Pictured is asylum seeker Deng Chol Majek, 27, originally from Sudan, who murdered hotel worker Rhiannon. Here he is seen in a police mugshot
t follows revelations in last week’s Mail on Sunday about how the Government’s secretive Research, Information and Communications Unit tries to manage the ‘challenges’ of multiculturalism by manipulating public mood following murders or terrorist incidents with a racial element.
When Rhiannon’s family told police they were turning off her life support, officers quickly removed the migrants from the hotel.
Ms Whyte added: ‘Those migrants were out within two hours – I think that’s because [the police] feared violence.’
It was only after Majek was sentenced that Ms Whyte mentioned the fact he had arrived in the UK on a small boat three months before the attack – and criticised Sir Keir Starmer. She said: ‘The Prime Minister’s got blood on his hands.’
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