An asylum seeker accused of stabbing a woman to death with a screwdriver has insisted he hasn’t lied about his age, and it was just ‘assumed’ by rescuers who pulled him from the Mediterranean Sea.

Deng Chol Majek claimed a date of birth suggesting he is 27, was ‘just assumed’ by Italian authorities and he is 19 and that he left Sudan aged 16.

The migrant is alleged to have murdered Rhiannon Whyte using a screwdriver at Walsall’s Bescot Stadium railway station on October 20 last year.

Giving evidence in the second week of his trial, Majek repeatedly denied that he was a man caught on CCTV wearing clothing described by the Crown as ‘identical’ to his.

The defendant, who is being assisted in court by an Arabic interpreter, denies murder, claiming a figure caught on CCTV at the station and

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