The Killer Was 27. The System Pretended He Was a Child.

The Home Office’s age scandal in the case of Rhiannon Skye Whyte exposes everything wrong with Britain’s asylum regime.

As regular readers will be aware, I am in contact with the family of the late mother Rhiannon Skye Whyte. I’m here to tell you once again that the system didn’t just fail her; it spat in her family’s face at every turn.

Rhiannon was a 27-year-old mother with a five-year-old son waiting for her at home. She spent her days cleaning and serving food at the Park Inn in Walsall — a hotel the government saw fit to fill with “vulnerable” asylum seekers.

On October 20, 2024, one of those guests, a Sudanese national named Deng Chol Majek, decided to “track” her like prey from his migrant lair. He followed her from her shift to Bescot Stadium station as she chatted innocently to a friend on her phone, and stabbed her 23 times with a screwdriver.

The brutality is stomach-churning. Eleven of those strikes were to her head. While Rhiannon lay dying on a cold platform, Majek was busy throwing her phone into a river, buying a beer, and heading back to the hotel to sing and dance like he’d just won the lottery of life.

But for the family, the “hell on earth” was only just beginning.

The Great Age Lie

For months, the public has been asked to swallow an absurdity.

Majek arrived in Britain via a small boat in July 2024 and immediately claimed he was a teenager. The system, ever eager to avoid the “cruelty” of scrutiny, accepted it at face value.

Because he was treated as a “child”, he was placed in public accommodation with minimal checks — shielded by a regime that treats doubt as discrimination and skepticism as heresy.

Even when confronted with foreign identity documents suggesting he was far older, after the rat race to enter Britain, Majek maintained the fiction. In court, he claimed officials had simply “assumed” his age and he had gone along with it. Must be British discrimination, right?

A laughable defence. But one that forced Rhiannon’s family to sit through a traumatic trial, watching a remorseless killer cosplay as a confused teenager suffering some trauma we in Britain could never possibly understand.

The Truth They Didn’t Want You to Know

Now, a close family member has revealed what the authorities refused to confront.

Two Home Office officials have now privately confirmed that Majek is in fact 27 years old — the same age as the young mother whose life he took.

Not a child. Not a teenager. A fully grown man.

No scans. No tribunals. No bureaucratic rituals required. Just two officials confirming the obvious — something the British state seemed incapable of doing.

For months, this family has been forced to endure a grotesque charade in which the killer of their daughter was treated as the victim of a paperwork error. A sick circus in which he refused medical procedures to confirm his age, while the media gaze drifted on from the brutal murder of a young mother.

A Betrayal Without Apology

The ordeal this family has endured is the direct result of a system that prioritises ideological comfort over public safety.

Because of this administrative cowardice, Rhiannon’s sister had to find the words to tell a five-year-old boy that his mother was never coming home.

They have had to fight for every scrap of truth while officials, activists, and the usual lefty chorus looked the other way — terrified that acknowledging reality might offend someone.

This isn’t compassion. It’s negligence dressed up as virtue.

The Final Reckoning

Majek will be sentenced soon, possibly as early as this week after months and months of delay. He will finally face justice for the monster he is — not the child he pretended to be.

But don’t expect an apology from the people who waved him through, housed him, believed him, and defended the lie.

They’ll move on to the next “cause”.

A family in Walsall is left to pick up the pieces of a life shattered by a screwdriver — and a system that still refuses to see sense. I am grateful to them for confiding in me throughout this trial, and I ask God to help each of them as they try to live with a loss inflicted by someone who should never have been in our country.