An asylum seeker has been found guilty of murdering a hotel worker at a train station in the West Midlands.

Deng Chol Majek, who is from Sudan and claims to be 19 years old, had told Wolverhampton Crown Court he was at a hotel for asylum seekers at the time Rhiannon Skye Whyte, 27, was attacked.

Majek said he had never spoken to her during the three months he lived at the Park Inn hotel, in Walsall, where Ms Whyte worked.

Prosecutors said he was caught on CCTV following Ms Whyte from the hotel to the nearby Bescot Stadium station, where she was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver 19 times on 20 October last year.

Answering questions from defence KC Gurdeep Garcha through an interpreter, who translated his replies, Majek said he "never had a problem with anyone" at the hotel and had never noticed Ms Whyte while he was staying there.

Asked by Mr Garcha if he was at the train station when Ms Whyte was stabbed, Majek replied: "No."

He also denied being "responsible for that fatal assault" on the platform.

Asked where he was at the time of the attack, he said: "I was staying in the hotel, outside."

He also claimed he had never had an argument with Ms Whyte and said there were no issues between them.

Majek said he had spent time in Libya, Italy and Germany before arriving in the UK to claim asylum in July last year.