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An asylum seeker, who was seen dancing and laughing after stabbing a hotel worker 23 times on a railway station platform, has been found guilty of murder.
Deng Chol Majek, originally from Sudan, was described by prosecutors as “utterly callous” after he launched a frenzied attack on Rhiannon Whyte. She had finished work at 11pm at the Park Inn hotel in Walsall, West Midlands, where Majek was living, when he “tracked” her on foot to the nearby Bescot Stadium station. He inflicted 19 wounds to her head, including a fatal brain stem injury.
Jurors at Wolverhampton Crown Court deliberated for two
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