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An asylum seeker on trial for murdering a hotel worker was found with the woman's DNA under his fingernails, a court has heard.

Deng Chol Majek denies killing Rhiannon Skye Whyte at Walsall 's Bescot Stadium railway station in October last year.

Prosecutors at Wolverhampton Crown Court allege the asylum seeker from Sudan - also denies possessing a screwdriver as an offensive weapon - was repeatedly caught on CCTV as he followed the 27-year-old woman before stabbing her 23 times, mainly to the head.

Ms Whyte died three days after being found slumped on the platform by the guard of a train she was intending to catch, following her shift at the Park Inn hotel on Bescot Crescent.

Explaining details of the evidence levelled against Majek to the jury during the Crown’s opening

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