Deng Chol Majek had been in the UK for less than three months when he murdered hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte. Almost exactly a year ago, he stabbed the 27-year-old mother 23 times with a screwdriver while she waited for a train at Bescot Stadium station, Walsall. After throwing Whyte’s phone into the river, Majek left her for dead. He then went to buy some beers and returned to the Park Inn Hotel, where Whyte was employed and which had been turned into an asylum centre. One witness described him as “drinking, smoking and just chatting amongst his group of friends … having a good time.”
Whyte’s injuries were severe—11 of the 23 blows delivered to her body struck her head. One of them pierced her brainstem. But she did not die straight away, instead lying unconscious in hospital for three days before she finally passed away. In court last week, Majek showed no remorse for what he had done, and even tried to claim that the DNA and CCTV evidence were “wrong.” He also tried to lie about his age, telling the court he was 19 years old, when he is more likely to be in his mid-20s. No motive has been established for the attack, but, thankfully, Majek has been found guilty and awaits sentencing later this year.
Whyte was simply going about her usual routine. She went to work at the Park Inn Hotel and was trying to get home after her shift. For reasons unknown to everyone—including perhaps Majek himself—her life was callously taken from her by a man who likely shouldn’t have been in this country in the first place. Majek had arrived in the UK via small boat in 2024, after having made his way from his home country of Sudan to Libya, Italy, and then Germany, where he was denied asylum.
By all accounts, Majek wasn’t the only migrant causing problems at the Park Inn Hotel. During Majek’s trial, it was revealed that, on multiple occasions, “police were called after migrants harassed women and followed them home” and “made threats to kill, to blow up the hotel, that they had a bomb in their bag.” It was also apparently common knowledge that the asylum seekers kept weapons, “including zombie knives and axes, in their bedrooms.” But staff were not allowed to enter the rooms and confiscate these items, to avoid disturbing the asylum seekers’ privacy. Migrants also “would arrive at the Park Inn Hotel with dozens of reports against their name,” suggesting that many of them already had run-ins with the law.
Whyte’s death was completely unavoidable. But the UK government will likely learn no lessons from it. Nor will it learn anything from another senseless murder this week at the hands of yet another asylum seeker. On Monday evening at 5pm, a 49-year-old binman named Wayne Broadhurst took his dog out for a walk in Uxbridge, Greater London. He, like Whyte, was killed in what looks to be a completely random attack. The suspect is a 22-year-old Afghan refugee named Safi Dawood, who was charged yesterday with the murder of Broadhurst, as well as two counts of attempted murder. It has been reported that Dawood was initially chasing these two other victims—a 14-year-old boy and 45-year-old man, who was Dawood’s landlord. Broadhurst attempted to intervene in this altercation, at which point Dawood allegedly stabbed him to death. The other man is currently in hospital with life-changing injuries. It may come as no surprise that Dawood came to this country illegally. The Home Office has confirmed that he arrived in the UK via lorry in 2020, and was granted asylum and leave to remain two years later.
A few days after Wayne Broadhurst was murdered and Rhiannon Whyte’s killer was convicted, Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur was jailed for life for the murder of a man in a bank. In May this year, Nur—a 47-year-old asylum seeker from Somalia—stabbed Gurvinder Singh Johal to death unprovoked in a busy Lloyds Bank in Derby. The details of the case will be tragically familiar to many people by now. Nur came to the UK in a small boat in October last year and had a number of convictions in at least four European countries, including for robbery, assault, and resisting a public official. For some reason, none of these records were shared with local police in Derbyshire.
Nur had also recently had his asylum application rejected, something that spurred his attack against Johal. Less than two hours before the murder, Nur called a charity, Migrant Help, to angrily complain about this rejection. He warned that he was “going to kill 500 people” and suggested that he would specifically target “doctors, police or people working at the Home Office.” He told call operators that he felt his rights were being denied and he was being kept “in an open door prison.” He also threatened to take his own life, after killing as many other people as he could.
In the UK, it is no longer safe to stand in a train station, take your dog for a walk, or go to the bank. These ordinary, everyday activities now carry the risk of being randomly murdered by someone who, by all rights, should not be anywhere near you. These are not isolated incidents by any means. In Britain alone, we see attacks by illegal migrants and asylum seekers with alarming regularity. In 2023, Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid stabbed his housemate and killed a 70-year-old man in the streets of Hartlepool. A year before that, Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai murdered aspiring Royal Marine Thomas Roberts outside a Subway sandwich shop in Bournemouth. Abdulrahimzai, of course, had arrived in the UK illegally and was on the run after facing murder charges in Serbia. Just last weekend, we witnessed the farcical exploits of Hadush Kebatu, the Ethiopian sex offender who was accidentally released onto the streets of London when he was supposed to have been deported.
How many more people have to be attacked, sexually assaulted, or murdered before the government starts to take this seriously? After the humiliation surrounding the Kebatu case, the authorities proved that they could deport people swiftly, provided that enough negative press was kicked up. But most of the time, there is zero political will to enforce this country’s laws. As David Shipley pointed out in the Telegraph last week, all these crimes are completely unavoidable. Violent foreigners do not simply materialise on British soil and leave us no choice but to accommodate them. The deaths of Rhiannon Whyte, Wayne Broadhurst, Gurvinder Singh Johal, and far too many others were not random accidents. They were not inevitable. They were the result of decades of deliberate choices, made by our political and legal elites, and mindlessly supported by the mainstream media.
The decision to allow in hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants without knowing virtually anything about who they are and where they came from is just that—a decision. There is no good reason why we should have to live this way. Law-abiding citizens should not have to fear leaving their homes, in case the state has waved through yet another anonymous, dangerous criminal. The most basic duty of the state—to protect its citizens—has been utterly neglected.
Until our political class finds the courage to enforce existing laws, there is no reason to expect the stream of cases like these to end. How many more innocent lives must be brutally cut short before our elites take notice? What will it take for the most ordinary of acts—waiting for the train, walking your dog, visiting the bank—to become safe again? This is the bare minimum that any serious country should promise its people.
