Chaos at killer migrant’s hotel where asylum seekers ‘made bomb threats and harassed young women’

Ms Whyte was working at the migrant-housing Park Inn hotel in Walsall before being followed by Majek who stabbed her 23 times.

Majek, who claims to be 19 but is believed to be older, was found guilty of the murder, which took place at a deserted train station in town.

Chris Durham, 46, who worked as a housing officer at Serco - the company that ran Park Inn hotel - said during the trial there were numerous occasions where police were called after migrants harassed women.

He said: “Some of [the migrants] made threats to kill, to blow up the hotel, that they had a bomb in their bag.

“A few of them followed hotel staff on the bus journeys home.”

Mr Durham described one instance where an asylum seeker followed a woman after her shift, going so far as to get on the same bus.

He said: “He just kept badgering her and wouldn’t leave her alone.

“She reported it to Serco but nothing came of it.”

Three weeks after the attack, Ms Whyte’s older sister Alexandra urged people to be vigilant when it was announced a new asylum seeker hotel was being established in Warwick.

On social media, she posted: “Please take care of your loved ones and ensure they are safe travelling home or to work/school.

"Please share in Leamington, Warwick and surrounding areas."

In response, Emma, one of Ms Whyte’s five sisters, wrote: “Keir Starmer, he has blood on his hands.”

Siobhan, Ms Whyte’s mother, said she partially blamed the Government for her daughter’s death.

Park Inn hotel staff were concerned that migrants kept weapons such as zombie knives and axes in their hotel rooms, Mr Durham said.

Mr Durham said the hotel rooms were considered the migrant’s homes, and they were unable to physically remove the weapons.

He said: “One man had this big Rambo knife in his room.

“He was constantly losing his temper and threatening everybody."

There was a tense atmosphere within the hotel, and migrants were prone to outbursts, said the former Serco worker.

Court records show that police were called after one migrant made bomb threats to a woman at the hotel.

He said: “A lot of these men have had extremely tough lives, horrendous experiences, they have had hard, difficult journeys getting to the UK.

“The problem is that many of them are therefore constantly on guard, they are quick to resort to violence, it is almost like a prisoner’s mentality.

“In the hotels they are finally able to relax and to me it felt like a lot of them just didn’t know how to react to that.”