Heartbroken mom Siobhan Whyte has branded the UK a ‘laughing inventory’ and blamed Starmer for her daughter Rhiannon’s homicide by a Channel migrant.
Siobhan Whyte spoke alongside Nigel Farage at a press convention. (Picture: Getty)
The heartbroken mom of Rhiannon Whyte branded Britain a “laughing inventory” as she blamed Keir Starmer for a Channel migrant killing her daughter. Siobhan Whyte mentioned nations similar to america and Australia had been more practical in deterring unlawful migration, whereas Labour simply let “them in”.
Sudanese asylum seeker Deng Majek laughed and danced after stabbing mother-of-one Rhiannon 23 occasions with a screwdriver in a frenzied 90-second assault. She had been working on the lodge the place he was staying, funded by the taxpayer. After ending her shift, he adopted her to Bescot Highway railway station in Walsall, the place the killing passed off in October 2024.
Mrs Whyte advised the Every day Categorical she is fearful for her 13-year-old granddaughter’s security, as girls and women are prone to critical violence. Talking with tears in her eyes throughout a sombre press convention alongside Reform UK chief Nigel Farage, she warned of extra killings and intercourse assaults except pressing motion is taken.
“I’m petrified. I’ve received a 13-year-old granddaughter, and he or she goes out and about together with her buddies. They don’t appear to care if it’s a person or a lady,” she mentioned. “I fear about my kids. What future have they received? We’re a laughing inventory. The UK is a laughing inventory. America stops them, the Australians cease them, all these different nations cease them. Cease them from coming in right here.
“France has been paid lots of of thousands and thousands to cease the boats, and they’re simply letting them in. Cease them on the borders. Ship them again, allow them to cope with them. Ship them again to their nation. Why ought to they be allowed right here?”
CCTV from contained in the Park Inn lodge, which was getting used to deal with asylum seekers, confirmed Majek hanging across the reception space observing Rhiannon all through the night.
She left after her shift and had been talking to a buddy on the cellphone when Majek brutally attacked her on the empty prepare platform at round 11pm. The mother-of-one had been stabbed 23 occasions to the pinnacle and left facet of her chest and arm, together with one wound which was so deep it pierced her mind stem.
She died within the hospital three days later. No motive has been established for why Majek attacked her.
Majek had arrived within the UK on a small boat about three months earlier than the assault and utilized for asylum. Following the assault, he took her cellphone and discarded it in a close-by river. And fury erupted after he was noticed dancing and laughing within the migrant lodge automotive park after the assault. He was jailed for 29 years in January.
Reform UK chief Nigel Farage mentioned the homicide was “maybe essentially the most surprising we’ve seen up to now”, dedicated by a small boat migrant.
And Mrs Whyte advised the Every day Categorical on Tuesday: “I blame the Authorities. I do blame him [Starmer]. I don’t suppose they care. Khan, Starmer, Jess Phillips, Mahmood, would they really feel the identical if it was their household?”
Visibly offended over the border disaster engulfing the UK, she added: “He took Rhiannon’s life in 90 seconds, stabbed her by means of the mind stem.
“He has by no means proven any regret, he known as forensics (specialists) liars, he simply didn’t care, he didn’t inform us why, he simply denied every part. So, we’ve needed to stay with that. Her little boy’s been left and not using a mum, my kids have been left and not using a sister, and I’ve misplaced my daughter by means of these scumbags that had been allowed into this nation illegally.
“One thing must be finished; they should cease permitting them in, as a result of it’s not Rhiannon who might be subsequent. Sadly there’s kids, there’s younger women getting raped. When’s the following homicide, and a household having to undergo what we’re going by means of?”
Virtually 70,000 migrants have crossed the Channel since Labour got here into workplace, with extra asylum seekers having arrived in a small boat below the Labour chief’s watch than some other UK chief. And Labour’s plans have been thrown into turmoil by the falling variety of interceptions in France, whereas talks on a brand new deal stalled.
The one-in, one-out deal has additionally failed to discourage these hoping to cross in a small boat. Some 4,766 have arrived up to now this yr, with many hundreds extra anticipated to cross within the coming months because the climate improves. A sequence of great sexual offences in current months has heightened concern concerning the danger posed to girls and women by some undocumented unlawful migrants.
Final month, Afghan Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was sentenced to 16 years for abducting and raping a 12-year-old woman in Nuneaton. He had arrived within the UK by small boat roughly 4 months earlier than the offences. In January, Mehmet Ogur, a 27-year-old Kurdish asylum seeker, was jailed for seven years for raping an 18-year-old lady in a park. He had been staying at a lodge in Tamworth and is believed to have arrived within the nation solely weeks earlier.
A month earlier than, Israr Niazal and Jan Jahanzeb, each 17-year-old Afghan asylum seekers, had been convicted of abducting and raping a 15-year-old woman in Leamington Spa. In November 2025, Iranian asylum seeker Amin Abedi Mofrad, 35, was jailed for 9 years and 6 months for raping a 15-year-old woman close to Oxford’s Westgate procuring centre.
Calling for stricter laws to be launched in her daughter’s identify, Mrs Whyte mentioned her household has been left “damaged” by Majek’s horrific crime. She advised the Every day Categorical: “We’re damaged, all of us are damaged. We’re a robust household. However we’re damaged as a household. He understands that his mummy isn’t right here anymore and that there was a foul man. And he desires to be a mind physician due to this. He thinks he will help individuals with mind accidents. How do you clarify that to a baby?”
Rhiannon was stabbed 23 occasions at Bescot Highway station (Picture: Getty)
She mentioned that for the reason that assault, she has been focused by a sick troll on social media.
“Folks have mentioned she had blue hair so she deserved it. She labored in a lodge so she deserved it. We’ve had a lot hate,” she mentioned. “It breaks me, final week I wished to surrender. However I must preserve going right here. I fear about my kids, I fear about my grandchildren, I fear about Rhiannon’s son. I’ve to maintain preventing and get my voice on the market. They take them out of inns and put them in HMOs. We don’t know who they’re, the place they’re.
“It’s why I would like this Rhiannon’s Regulation put in place. So, if I must struggle the Authorities for that, so be it.”
‘Rhiannon’s Regulation’ would supply for the instant detention and vetting of migrants on arrival. Border officers would conduct extra rigorous checks for proof of legal historical past, whereas asylum seekers would even be screened for infectious ailments.
Underneath the proposals, their actions could be restricted, stopping them from freely circulating in the neighborhood whereas their standing is assessed.
Mrs Whyte added: “Vetting [migrants] so they’re on a curfew, they’ll’t come out and in. Put [migrants] in an outdated Military barracks, and put a curfew on in order that they can not wander the streets. Everybody says it occurs at night-time, no, it’s taking place within the day as effectively.”
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Mr Farage, talking within the press convention in Bedworth, West Mids, mentioned: “Who subsequent? There’s nothing being finished to alter any of this. There isn’t a plan with the French, and it doesn’t actually matter how a lot cash we ship them, as a result of we’ve given them £800 million to cease this since 2014, and I believe circumstances like this genuinely outrage the British public as they need to. This homicide, this demise was wholly pointless in each means.”
A Labour Occasion spokesperson, responding to Reform UK’s press convention on unlawful migration as we speak, mentioned: “This Authorities is taking decisive motion to bear down on small boat crossings and restore management of our borders. We’ve got already stopped over 42,000 unlawful migrants trying to cross the Channel for the reason that Basic Election, and eliminated or deported practically 60,000 individuals with no proper to be right here. However we’re going additional – eradicating the incentives that draw individuals into harmful crossings and ramping up removals, so the system is truthful, managed and works within the nationwide curiosity.”
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