A grieving British mother says she has been driven to seek help abroad after feeling ignored at home. In an exclusive interview, GB News spoke with Siobhan White, whose daughter Rhiannon was murdered by an asylum seeker, and who says she is now appealing directly to US President Donald Trump because her repeated attempts to reach the British government have gone unanswered.
At the centre of her frustration is a lack of response. White said she has emailed officials numerous times without receiving so much as an acknowledgement, telling the broadcaster she has reached out to senior figures and that not one person has replied. She said the silence has left her feeling that she is not being listened to and that her daughter's case is being, in her words, brushed under the carpet.
Her central question concerns how her daughter's killer came to be in the country at all. White said the man who killed Rhiannon had been denied asylum in Italy and denied asylum in Germany before being allowed to come to the United Kingdom, and she wants answers about how that was permitted to happen, describing a long fight to get information from the authorities.
The toll of that fight runs through her account. White spoke of roughly 15 months of struggling for answers and of feeling that she has been met with obstacles rather than support, even as she continues to push on behalf of her daughter and of Rhiannon's young son, who was left behind.
Her message to the Prime Minister was simple and personal. White said she was not asking for anything political, and not framing it around colour or race, but simply wanted Keir Starmer to meet her and to show her, her children and Rhiannon's little boy enough respect to provide some answers, saying she is heartbroken at feeling overlooked.
Her appeal lands amid a wider and contentious debate. It follows comments by US Vice President J.D. Vance on a separate case, and a recent Times poll cited by GB News suggesting that 34 percent of the public believe so-called two-tier policing is a problem in the UK, a minority but a substantial one, underlining how charged these questions have become.
The government has pushed back on the broader narrative. Downing Street has said that in recent days it has seen people trying to interfere in British democracy and seeking to stir up division, and has urged that grieving families' wishes be respected rather than used to create further tension. For White, though, the request remains narrow and immediate: a response, a meeting and answers about what happened to her daughter.