Who is Deng Majek?published at 14:40 BST
14:40 BST
Chloe Hughes
West Midlands
Deng Majek is a Sudanese asylum seeker who was living at the Park Inn Hotel in Walsall at the time of Rhiannon Whyte’s death.
The court heard that he is from a large family, with seven sisters and three brothers and did not go to school or have any formal education.
The jury was also told he had a daughter in Sudan, who he left behind when he left the country.
Majek told the court that he left Sudan at the age of 16, fleeing war, and travelled through Libya, Italy and then Germany.
On documents in Germany his date of birth was recorded as 1
January 1998, which would make him 27 now, but he told the court that was a mistake due to confusion when he was processed in Italy and claims he is rather 19.
Majek also told the court that he had no previous convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings recorded against him.