DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Broken borders let monsters break lives

Everything about the murder of Rhiannon Whyte is distressing and horrific.

Late one night in October 2024, as she waited to catch a train home after finishing work at a migrant hotel in Walsall, the much-loved mother of one was brutally attacked by one of the residents.

For reasons unknown, Deng Chol Majek, a Sudanese asylum seeker, stabbed her 23 times. As Rhiannon lay dying, he celebrated by laughing and dancing.

Yesterday, this beast was jailed for a minimum of 29 years – an abysmally lenient sentence given the depravity of his crime.

Having arrived here unlawfully by small boat, he was housed and fed at taxpayers’ expense. He repaid our charity by savagely killing an innocent young woman.

Were this an isolated offence, it would be horrendous enough. But of course, it isn’t.

Every day now, there seems to be news of murders, sexual assaults and violence carried out by illegal immigrants.

Just this week, a Pakistani asylum seeker was convicted of raping an 18-year-old woman in a park in Nottinghamshire.

Rhiannon Whyte, 27, was attacked moments after leaving work and died in hospital with her family by her side

Deng Chol Majek, who is from Sudan but arrived in the UK by small boat in July 2024, was previously found guilty of murdering mother-of-one Rhiannon Whyte in October 2024

Each one of these offences is a tragedy for the victims – a life ruined. But every single one of them is avoidable.

True, many asylum seekers are law-abiding. But soft-touch Britain is letting in illegal migrants in huge numbers – overwhelmingly young, unvetted men from backwards cultures. It’s no surprise the result is a catalogue of attacks on women and girls.

This scandal has been years in the making. Successive governments have woefully failed to secure our borders, while the broken asylum system repeatedly promotes political correctness and the rights of migrants over protecting the public.

In powerful comments, Rhiannon’s grieving family condemned Sir Keir Starmer. Her death, they said, was a consequence of his failure to act on illegal immigration: ‘Why are we allowing this to continuously happen?’ They have a point.

If illegal migrants were securely detained in immigration centres, or flown to a third country such as Rwanda for processing, these heinous crimes would not occur. But the Prime Minister – a classic human rights lawyer – is unwilling to introduce the radical legislation needed to make it happen.

So how many more monsters like Majek will we keep letting in? And how many more families will have their hearts broken?

Sir Keir positively shimmered with self-regard as a military band gave him a ceremonial welcome at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Thursday.

Soon, however, the PM will be back from his China jaunt and the only sound ringing in his ears will be that of blown raspberries.

Speaking outside court as her daughter’s killer was jailed for a minimum of 29 years, Ms Whyte’s mother Donna (pictured) called for the Government to take a tougher stance on illegal immigration

He went to drum up trade but apart from getting a few economic crumbs, achieved little except to show how easily he succumbs to the flatteries of a malign dictator.

Even the lifting of sanctions on sitting MPs and Peers is symbolic. China won’t stop its industrial-scale espionage in Britain.

But things are no better for the PM at home. After the hideously botched Budget, everyone from the hospitality industry to manufacturers are out for his blood.

Labour are likely to get trounced in the Gorton and Denton by-election and Sir Keir faces flak for blocking leadership pretender Andy Burnham from standing.

Economic growth withers by the day, his plan to scrap jury trials is on the rocks and his backbenchers are plotting his downfall.

One can imagine he’d not want to return to the UK. Given his lamentable leadership, millions would also prefer him to stay away.