Darren Grimes has launched a scathing attack on the Labour Government for failing to reach out to the family of murdered asylum hotel worker Rhiannon Whyte.
Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK Councillor hit out at their inability to support Siobhan Whyte, having reached out to the family himself.
Speaking exclusively to the People’s Channel earlier today, Rhiannon’s mother Siobhan said only one political figure reached out to her but no one from the Labour Government.
Ms Whyte explained: “I would love to meet Keir Starmer face to face. The only person politically that has reached out is Darren Grimes.
“I know a lot of people don’t like him, but I don’t care. He’s been respectful towards my family, he’s been respectful to me. But political wise, not one single person has reached out officially, not one person.”
Reacting to Ms Whyte’s interview, Mr Grimes told GB News: “It’s a mixed emotion for me because obviously there’s emotional torment with watching that interview, and watching a mother going through the very worst, unimaginable trauma that a parent can actually ultimately go through.
“But then I’ve read and I’ve had to print it off the Home Office response. ‘We share the public’s anger’, and they go on to say ‘we are doing everything we can’.
“Well, to that I have to say absolutely not, you are not doing everything you can. Where is the action on this? Where is leaving the ECHR?”
Darren Grimes has hit out at the Labour Government for failing to reach out to Siobhan Whyte following her daughter’s murder
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Revealing the heartbreaking reason why he came into contact with Rhiannon’s family, Mr Grimes explained: “The reason I reached out and became in contact with Siobhan Whyte is because her daughter Alex reached out to me whilst I was working for GB News, and she said ‘please do not let my sister’s name fall out of the news cycle’.
“Can you imagine that? Can you imagine the trauma of of fear that actually you’re just going to be another statistic?
“Siobhan and Alex Whyte were determined for Rhiannon to not become just another statistic, and that’s what I was determined to do as well, within reason.”
Criticising the length of time it took to get Rhiannon’s murder to trial, the Reform councillor despaired: “How can it be that the trials of the likes of Lucy Connolly were done in absolute breakneck speed, and the likes of Peter Lynch also done incredibly fast, but when it comes to this, it took 15 months for this trial to conclude.
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“And that included, by the way, some prevarication around this barbaric animal lying about his age, saying he was a teenager and he had to have age verification done.
“It just smacks to me of the state bending over backwards to appease those who can commit the very worst, unimaginable barbarism, and actually the likes of of Siobhan having to sit there through that caucus. How could I not reach out to her?”
Echoing Ms Whyte’s prediction that Rhiannon’s murder “will not be the last” in a case of this kind, Mr Grimes said: “As Siobhan said, it is not just Rhiannon that will be the last case for this to happen to, and it won’t be Keir Starmer’s kids that have to go through this.
“They have security, they have safe homes, Rhiannon was trying to make an honest living in a migrant hotel for her child, and she couldn’t even do that.”
Darren Grimes told GB News the UK is a ‘weak nation’ when it comes to illegal migration
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He fumed: “We are a weak nation. We are a nation that has been driven to psychosis through the diversity is our strength dogma, and I think it’s all too inconvenient for the political and media class who sort of greet these stories with a collective shrug of the shoulders.
“And it’s people at channels like GB News who need to actually say, we are not going to allow the names of good, decent, law abiding people to die with Rhiannon because I’m afraid that’s what her mother is crying out for.
“That’s what they’re crying out for. They’ve achieved some semblance of justice, he’ll be in prison for life, but he should never have been here.”
In a statement, a Home Office spokesman told GB News: “The murder of Rhiannon Whyte was an abhorrent crime, and our thoughts are with her loved ones.
“This vile criminal is behind bars where he belongs, and he has rightly received the strictest punishment of a life sentence.
“We share the public’s anger about the broken asylum system and hotels, that is precisely why we are doing everything we can to keep dangerous offenders out of the country and close down hotels.”