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Asylum seeker accused of killing Walsall hotel worker seen ‘clearly excited’ after attack, jury told

Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, was stabbed 23 times with a screwdriver after shift at hotel where Deng Chol Majek lived

An asylum seeker accused of stabbing a hotel worker 23 times with a screwdriver and leaving her to die was seen dancing and laughing in the aftermath of the attack, a murder trial jury has heard.

Deng Chol Majek, who claims to be 19, was “clearly excited about what he had done” after inflicting fatal wounds on Rhiannon Skye Whyte, who worked in the hotel where he was living, Wolverhampton crown court heard.

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