Jury sworn in for hotel worker murder trial | Latest Travel News
Rhiannon Skye Whyte died in hospital on 23 October, three days after she was discovered injured [Handout]
A jury has been sworn in the trial of a murder suspect accused of fatally stabbing a hotel worker at a railway station.
Rhiannon Whyte, 27, died in hospital three days after being discovered injured at Walsall’s Bescot Stadium station last October.
Deng Chol Majek, 19, pleaded not guilty at a earlier listening to to her murder and a separate rely of possessing a screwdriver as an offensive weapon at the station.
Mr Majek, understood to be an asylum seeker, was assisted by a Sudanese dialect Arabic interpreter at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Monday as a jury of six males and six ladies was sworn in.
Prosecutors allege Mr Majek, previously a resident at the Park Inn hotel in Bescot Crescent, used a screwdriver to assault Ms Whyte.
After the jury was sworn in, trial choose Justice Soole said the case against him could be opened by prosecutor Michelle Heeley KC on Tuesday.
“Any case involving a death raises natural emotions,” the choose told the jury.
“But the absolute duty of you all is to set emotion aside, and in a cool and calm way, consider the evidence utterly dispassionately.”
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