Mother says Starmer has blood on his hands after woman killed by asylum seeker in Walsall
Deng Chol Majek is believed to have entered the UK by small boat less than three months before attacking Rhiannon Whyte
The mother of a hotel worker who was stabbed 23 times by a Sudanese asylum seeker said that Sir Keir Starmer has got "blood on his hands" and needs to be held accountable.
Deng Chol Majek is believed to have entered the UK by small boat less than three months before launching a frenzied assault on mother-of-one Rhiannon Whyte at Bescot Stadium railway station in Walsall on October 20 2024.
Majek, who was branded "demonic and inhuman" by Ms Whyte's family, was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 29 years for her murder at Coventry Crown Court on Friday.
Speaking to GB News on Monday, Ms Whyte's mother Siobhan Whyte said that the Prime Minister "needs to be held accountable".
Asked who she is angry at, the mother said: "Starmer, the Government, for allowing this to happen.
"There's so many cases that are brushed under the carpet.
"We have sat quiet for 15 months for Rhiannon's sake because I wanted justice.
"Starmer needs to be held accountable.
"If it was his family, Sadiq Khan, if it was their family, this wouldn't happen.
"This needs to stop.
"There's cases of poor men, poor children, women being raped, attacked, beaten and murdered on a daily basis."
She added: "Rhiannon's not the first case and sadly she won't be the last.
"But we were handed a life sentence the day I had to watch my daughter die.
"And where is Starmer? He's got blood on his hands."
Asked what she would say to Sir Keir if she met him, Ms Whyte said: "Would he be sitting there flying off to China and doing all this if it was his child, his wife, his niece, his family member?
"No, he would make a firm stance on it then, wouldn't he?"
The mother said: "And I won't back down from it either because he's got the blood of Rhiannon, and these other women and men, children, on his hands.
"He needs to take accountability and he needs to take his head out his backside and stand up and realise what is going on in his country."
Majek is said to have tracked Ms Whyte to the station after she finished a shift at the Park Inn hotel, where he had been living, at 11pm before inflicting 19 wounds to her head, including a fatal brain stem injury.
CCTV played during his trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court showed he disappeared from view on to a deserted platform for 90 seconds at around 11.18pm to attack Ms Whyte, 27, whose son was aged five at the time.
She died in hospital three days later, after being found injured in a shelter on the platform by the driver and guard of a train which pulled in about five minutes after the attack.
The Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "This is clearly an appalling case but as I say I'm not going to comment on the details of that case, but broadly our action on illegal migration is clear and we completely accept that there is more to do and that is where our focus is."
He said the Government had returned 50,000 people with no right to stay in the UK and had struck a "number of international deals" to "combat illegal migration".
Pressed on whether Sir Keir would comment on what the family are enduring, his spokesman said "clearly our sympathies are with the family of those involved" but that "I'm not going to comment on the details of that case".