{"id":101663,"date":"2025-10-24T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101663\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:43:06","slug":"deng-majek-guilty-of-murdering-rhiannon-whyte-on-walsall-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/101663\/","title":{"rendered":"Deng Majek guilty of murdering Rhiannon Whyte on Walsall platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Deng Majek?published at 14:40 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:40 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Chloe Hughes<br \/>West Midlands<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Deng Majek is a Sudanese asylum seeker who was living at the Park Inn Hotel in Walsall at the time of Rhiannon Whyte&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The jury was also told he had a daughter in Sudan, who he left behind when he left the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Majek told the court that he left Sudan at the age of 16, fleeing war, and travelled through Libya, Italy and then Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On documents in Germany his date of birth was recorded as 1<br \/>\nJanuary 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Majek also told the court that he had no previous convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings recorded against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who is Deng Majek?published at 14:40 BST 14:40 BST Chloe HughesWest Midlands Deng Majek is a Sudanese asylum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-101663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}