{"id":142924,"date":"2025-10-24T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142924\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:41:08","slug":"deng-majek-guilty-of-murdering-rhiannon-whyte-on-walsall-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142924\/","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\"><strong>Chloe Hughes<\/strong><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":9890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-142924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115429670222799347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}