Feminist campaigner Jean Hatchet erupted in fury as she accused Labour and the wider political establishment of a “failure to protect women”, following the killing of Rhiannon Whyte.
Ms Hatchet demanded action from politicians, asking bluntly: “How many more women have to die?” as she warned that women’s safety has been reduced to a “political football”.
Ms Whyte, 27, was brutally killed in October 2024 after finishing her shift at the Park Inn Hotel in Walsall, where her convicted killed Deng Majek had been residing as an asylum seeker.
CCTV footage captured him following her to Bescot Stadium railway station, where he launched a savage assault on the platform, stabbing her 23 times with a screwdriver in just 90 seconds.
Ms Hatchet told GB News: “He should never have been here. And, you know, she is no longer with us.
“He shouldn’t have been here to kill her, it is a gross failure of women. It’s a failure of the state.
“But, you know, as I’ve also said, I think it’s a failure of some women’s rights activists to speak out against this out of fear of being called far right.
“I’ve said a lot of things about that over the last few days because women have been contacting me absolutely furious about what has happened to her.
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“This man was a liar, not just a murderer. He lied about his age. He lied about his background.
“We don’t know, we don’t even know if this man is a victim of violence himself in Sudan. He could actually be a perpetrator of violence in that civil war.
“So we know nothing about the majority of men who come here on small boats. And they don’t carry a lesser risk of violence against women than British national men, they carry a greater risk because we know less about them.
“We’ve got less control over their whereabouts. We can only anticipate that they’ve come from somewhere that is more difficult to live in than here. So therefore, they’ve seen things that they perhaps shouldn’t have seen.
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“They are a greater risk to women, and none of them should be here. No one should have been allowed to be here illegally and then kill a woman as he did, Rhiannon.
She added: “It’s a political football at the moment, isn’t it? It’s been passed around the parties, and yet no one is actually implementing anything that is going to keep women safer.
“You’re looking at the situation in Crowborough there, and all of those people will be branded far right.
“And the women, if they join those marches, will be branded far right, even in the light of this extreme murder.
“So what you’ve got is this chilling, silencing effect of ‘far right’, ‘fascist’, ‘racist’ and I’ll get all of that myself despite being none of those things, for simply saying that these men carry a greater risk to women and the Government has to do something, do something fast.
“And stop these men coming here in any way they can. But if they do arrive here, they’re already criminals. Deport them.
“I will be criticised extensively for saying those things as a feminist woman, but it’s my feminist duty to keep other women safe. If that isn’t a tenet of feminism, I don’t know what is.
“So if that doesn’t chime with feminists, I don’t know why it doesn’t. We have an obligation to push Government, all of us.”