If UK controlled its own borders, killer illegal migrant would never have been here - Rakib Ehsan

Whyte, who was discovered slumped inside a platform shelter by the driver and guard of a train, died three days later in hospital from a catastrophic brain injury – having suffered nineteen wounds to her head.

Senior Investigating Officer, Detective Chief Inspector Paul Attwell said: "This was a brutal, cowardly, and entirely unprovoked attack on a vibrant and selfless young woman who had her whole life ahead of her."

Following a fortnight-long trial, jurors at Wolverhampton Crown Court deliberated for just over two hours before unanimously convicting Majek of murder and possessing a screwdriver as an offensive weapon.

Majek – who entered the UK via Libya, Italy, and Germany – reportedly left behind a daughter in his homeland of Sudan.

If the UK had genuine control over its own national borders and prioritised public safety the way it should, Majek simply would not have been allowed to set foot in Britain.

Instead, the ‘father’ who left his own child in a war-torn country was allowed to enter the UK on a small boat and was rehomed in a three-star hotel in an English market town – accommodation funded by the British taxpayer in the middle of an ongoing cost-of-living crisis.

Within months, he went on to brutally murder a young woman, putting her loved ones through hell on Earth – one cannot even imagine the pain, misery, and suffering of their living nightmare.

Based on tributes made to her, Whyte was a deeply family-oriented, considerate, and bubbly woman who enjoyed bringing happiness to the life of others – including her five-year-old son. Their sense of loss must be profound.

The murder of Rhiannon Whyte is a truly horrifying case which exposes the fundamental threat posed by ongoing the small-boats emergency to the safety and well-being of British women and girls.

But it is deeper than that – a dangerous illegal migrant who left his own daughter in a conflict-affected country was allowed to enter the UK without permission, was given state-funded accommodation, and went on to launch a terrifying act of lethal violence against a young British woman who lived and breathed her family. It is the cruelLest form of injustice imaginable.

If this case cannot compel the British political establishment to bring the systems-level changes needed to prioritise the safety of UK citizens over the rights of foreign nationals – including those who reach these shores in an unauthorised fashion and represent a serious public-safety risk – then nothing will.