A bereaved mother whose daughter was fatally stabbed by a Sudanese asylum seeker has delivered harrowing testimony to Nigel Farage, demanding government action as the Reform UK leader outlined plans for comprehensive migrant crisis intervention.
Siobhan Whyte’s 27-year-old daughter Rhiannon left behind a young son after being killed in a 90-second attack by Deng Chol Majek, who had entered Britain just eleven weeks earlier before murdering the hotel worker who had been caring for asylum seekers in her professional capacity.
“Her little boy has been left without a mum. My children have been left without their sister, and I’ve lost my daughter,” Mrs Whyte stated, describing how Majek stabbed Rhiannon 23 times with a screwdriver on 20 October 2024.
The grieving mother revealed the killer—who fled North Sudan allegedly for personal safety—showed no remorse whilst denying culpability throughout proceedings. “He called forensics liars. He just didn’t care. He wouldn’t tell us why. He just denied everything,” she recounted.
Rhiannon sustained fatal wounds including penetration through her main brainstem despite having no prior connection to her attacker, with Mrs Whyte explaining: “He didn’t know Rhiannon. She didn’t know him. She just worked in a hotel where she looked after them.”
The mother issued stark warnings about continued irregular migration: “Something needs to be done. They need to stop allowing them in, because if not Rhiannon, who’s next?”
Mr Farage seized upon the testimony to condemn governmental inaction despite what he characterised as “massive public demand.” The Reform leader declared: “I think cases like this genuinely outrage the British public, as they should. This murder, this death, was wholly unnecessary in every way.”
He outlined policy proposals including European Convention on Human Rights withdrawal alongside immediate detention for all small boat arrivals and lorry stowaways. “Anyone who comes in the back of a lorry on a small boat is immediately detained and not free to walk the streets,” Mr Farage declared.
Asked by GB News‘s Katherine Forster who bore responsibility for Rhiannon’s death, the Reform leader blamed successive administrations. “It’s the British government that, despite massive public demand for something to be done, has seen absolutely nothing done,” he stated.
Mr Farage criticised the previous Conservative government’s unfulfilled pledge to “stop the boats” alongside Labour’s promise to “smash the gangs,” questioning: “What is Plan B? There clearly isn’t one of any kind at all.”
He noted Britain has provided France £800 million since 2014 for Channel migration prevention without meaningful results, arguing financial transfers alone cannot resolve the crisis.
Mrs Whyte agreed with Mr Farage’s governmental accountability assessment.
