West Midlands Police said the suspects include a man accused of trying to throw fireworks into Villa Park.

Julia Wandelt’s barrister also argued that the 24-year-old was polite to Kate McCann during a visit to her home last year.

West Midlands Police said its goal is to ensure fan safety and facilitate peaceful protest.

In his closing speech at Leicester Crown Court, Michael Duck KC claimed Julia Wandelt and Karen Spragg cared only about their own agenda.

Deng Chol Majek, originally from Sudan, had been in the UK for less than three months when he attacked Rhiannon Whyte at a deserted railway station.

The hotel worker’s family say they have endured ‘hell on earth’ and that no sentence handed to her killer will ever equate to their loss.

Deng Chol Majek, who came to the UK after Germany refused his asylum bid, told jurors CCTV images of him showed a different man in identical clothing.

Deng Chol Majek is accused of attacking Rhiannon Whyte at Bescot Stadium station in Walsall.

Deng Chol Majek, who is from Sudan, was seen dancing on a car park after he is alleged to have stabbed Rhiannon Whyte and left her for dead.

Prosecutors allege that Deng Chol Majek is aged 27 and gave his correct date of birth to the authorities while staying in Italy and Germany.

Deng Chol Majek claims he was at his hotel in Walsall when Rhiannon Whyte was attacked at a nearby railway station.

Deng Chol Majek denies murdering Rhiannon Skye Whyte who was stabbed at a railway station in October last year.

Alicia Novas, 19, is charged with committing misconduct while working at HMP Five Wells with the encouragement of 30-year-old Declan Winkless.

The suspects were detained over a rape in Halesowen, West Midlands, on Thursday and then re-arrested over an attack in the nearby Oldbury area.

A mobile phone clip shown to jurors trying Deng Majek is alleged to show him dancing to music in a car park – in sight of emergency service crews.

Deng Majek is alleged to have been spotted chatting and listening to music outside Walsall’s Park Inn hotel after Rhiannon Skye Whyte was stabbed.

Daniel Birtwistle, aged 39, is alleged to have unlawfully killed Georgina Ward and faces further allegations that he assaulted three other women.

A close friend of Rhiannon Skye Whyte heard three screams and then silence at the time she was fatally stabbed, a jury has heard.

Witnesses said Deng Chol Majek intimidated three female staff members and appeared to be ‘planning something’ at Walsall’s Park Inn hotel.

Deng Chol Majek contests the Crown’s claim that CCTV proves he stabbed Rhiannon Skye Whyte and then left her for dead on a railway station platform.