Rhiannon Whyte's mother makes devastating admission about impact on her grandson after murder by illegal migrant as she issues demand to Keir Starmer

Rhiannon, 27, was stabbed to death by illegal immigrant Deng Chol Majek in October 2024, who was staying in the asylum hotel at which she worked. Majek was jailed for a minimum of 29 years for Ms Whyte's murder.

Reflecting on the sentencing in court, Ms Whyte told Breakfast hosts Eamonn Holmes and Dawn Neesom that she and Rhiannon's family will "never know why" Majek killed her daughter.

Ms Whyte told GB News: "There was absolutely no reason at all, no reason. He literally just watched her for hours, they'd never even crossed words, never spoken. He didn't even know her name.

"She's walking in the hotel and he walks out, there's three girls, but he deliberately goes for Rhiannon. It was just like she was his target, and that was it. I will never know why."

Making a heartbreaking admission about Rhiannon's six-year-old son, Ms Whyte recalled how he broke down when they told him his mum had "gone to heaven": "He knew Rhiannon was in hospital, and we tried to explain to him that she had a poorly brain.

"She had a poorly brain and she had to go to heaven. To hear a child cry like that... the first word out of this poor little five-year-old's mouth was 'I need my vitamins, I don't want to get a poorly brain'. And he got himself so worked up that Alex had to sit him on her lap and explain it was a bad man. He caused a poorly brain, and we couldn't save her."

She told GB News: "Trying to explain that to a now six-year-old child is traumatising in itself, because we still can't comprehend what's gone on, so how does a child of that age?

"He's now saying that he wants to be a brain surgeon, to help people that have gone through what Rhiannon has. He's too innocent to be thinking these things, he goes to bed every night with a teddy bear, with Rhiannon's picture on it."

Asked by Dawn if she is happy with Majek's 29-year sentence, Ms Whyte said: "I am happy, but it will never be enough. I'm going to be honest, if the death penalty was in, I would get him up straight away. So it will never be enough, but he will never be able to hurt anybody else."

Expressing her outrage at Sir Keir and the Labour Government for their handling of Britain's migrant crisis, Ms Whyte said: "I am angry at Keir Starmer and the Government for allowing this to happen. There's so many cases that are brushed under the carpet, and 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, if it was Sadiq Khan's family, this wouldn't happen. This needs to stop. There's cases of poor men, poor children, women being raped, attacked, beaten, murdered on a daily basis.

"And it's not genuine asylum seekers, it is illegals. We don't know who they are, and half the time, I don't think they know who they are, but they're still allowing them in."

Declaring the Prime Minister has "blood on his hands", Ms Whyte made clear: "Rhiannon is not the first case and sadly, she won't be the last. But we were handed a life sentence, and I had to watch my daughter die. And where is Starmer? He's got blood on his hands.

"Something needs to be done. Would he be flying off to China and doing all this if it was his child, his wife, his niece, his family member? No. He'd take a firm stance on it then, wouldn't he? I won't back down from this either, because he's got the blood of Rhiannon, and these other women and men and children on his hands.

"He needs to take accountability, and he needs to take his head out of his backside and stand up and realise what is going on in his country."

Paying an emotional tribute to her daughter, Ms Whyte broke down in tears as she admitted she is "physically and emotionally drained" by grief, and she "misses Rhiannon so much".

Ms Whyte said: "Every second of every day I miss her, I miss her laugh, and I'll continue to miss her. She came to live with me, we became best friends, we did everything together, and this scumbag just took her from me.

"She was actually, hand on heart, genuinely the nicest person you could ever meet. She had a heart of gold. She would do anything for anyone, she adored that little boy, she adored her nieces, her nephews, and she loved her family.

"I am mentally and physically drained. After today, I will be taking time back to try and unwind because I don't think I've really had time to grieve. Two days after Rhiannon's verdict, my mum passed away, so basically he's got the death of two people on his hands.

In a statement, a Home Office spokesman told GB News: "The murder of Rhiannon Whyte was an abhorrent crime, and our thoughts are with her loved ones.

"This vile criminal is behind bars where he belongs, and he has rightly received the strictest punishment of a life sentence.

"We share the public’s anger about the broken asylum system and hotels, that is precisely why we are doing everything we can to keep dangerous offenders out of the country and close down hotels."