Who is Deng Majek?published at 11:17 GMT
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Deng Majek is a Sudanese asylum seeker who was living at the Park Inn Hotel in Walsall at the time of Rhiannon Whyte’s death.
The court heard that he was from a large family, with seven sisters and three brothers and did not go to school or have any formal education.
The jury was also told he had a daughter in Sudan, who he left behind when he left the country.
Majek told his trial in October that he left Sudan, fleeing war, and travelled through Libya, Italy and then Germany.
The jury heard Majek had travelled to the UK on a small boat, arriving on 29 July 2024.
On documents in Germany, his date of birth was recorded as 1 January 1998, which would make him 27 now, but he told the court that was a mistake due to confusion when he was processed in Italy and claimed he was instead 19.
Tests conducted since the trial have confirmed him to be over 21.
