Sara Payne - child campaigner - battles for life

I am so sad to hear this news. I wish her strength to recover.

Best Wishes Sara x

So this is how the good are rewarded. There´s great hope for Kate and Gerry as they are the other side of the coin. Looks like the Devil is winning right now.

Sarah's Killer Found With Her Picture In Cell
9:41am UK, Sunday March 21, 2010
James Jordan, Sky News Online
The man convicted of murdering schoolgirl Sarah Payne was found with pictures of her in his cell, it has been revealed.


Roy Whiting, 51, had newspaper and magazine cuttings about the eight-year-old and other young girls in his cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire.
The disturbing discovery was made during a routine search and detailed in a prison report seen by the Sunday Mirror.
The newspaper quoted the 2009 report as saying: "It is of serious concern that the security information indicates hidden newspaper cuttings of Mr Whiting's victim and young girls were discovered during a cell search.
"It appears that his interest in young girls continues to be evident within the prison environment."
Sarah's mum Sara Payne, 40, told the News of the World: "I felt anger and dismay when told what he had been doing. This is extremely unfortunate and gives me the creeps.
"We live in an age where material like this is easily available and the Prison Service can only do its best to try and restrict it."
She added: "Collecting newspaper clippings is, I am sure, Roy Whiting and other paedophiles' way of trying to intimidate the families of their victims."

Sarah vanished while out playing
Sarah vanished while playing with her brothers and sister in a field near her grandparents' house in Littlehampton, West Sussex.
Search teams looked for 16 days before her body was found 12 miles away.
After Whiting was convicted, it emerged that he had kidnapped and sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl five years earlier.
A Prison Service spokeswoman said: "We don't comment on individual cases.
"Where inappropriate materials are found in prisoners' cells they are immediately removed and the prisoner may be subject to disciplinary proceedings."

Truly sickening and distressing for Sarah's family.

AnnaEsse wrote:Truly sickening and distressing for Sarah's family.

It is, so why has the paper published all the gory details. They could just have said that he was found with pictures of young girls in his cell. They didn't have to specify that one of them was Sarah.

I thought the same thing but not in those words

The Famous Grouse wrote:

AnnaEsse wrote:Truly sickening and distressing for Sarah's family.

It is, so why has the paper published all the gory details. They could just have said that he was found with pictures of young girls in his cell. They didn't have to specify that one of them was Sarah.

It sells more papers if it has all the gory details.

I am lost for words.

Antoinette wrote:

The Famous Grouse wrote:

AnnaEsse wrote:Truly sickening and distressing for Sarah's family.

It is, so why has the paper published all the gory details. They could just have said that he was found with pictures of young girls in his cell. They didn't have to specify that one of them was Sarah.

It sells more papers if it has all the gory details.

Exactly. That editor has no sense of decency or humanity.

The Famous Grouse wrote:

Antoinette wrote:

The Famous Grouse wrote:

AnnaEsse wrote:Truly sickening and distressing for Sarah's family.

It is, so why has the paper published all the gory details. They could just have said that he was found with pictures of young girls in his cell. They didn't have to specify that one of them was Sarah.

It sells more papers if it has all the gory details.

Exactly. That editor has no sense of decency or humanity.

The story I posted here is from Sky news but I'd say it's all over the papers too.

Oh well, Sky, that explains a lot.

1:35pm UK, Wednesday June 09, 2010

Emma Rowley, Sky News Online

The paedophile who murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has had his minimum jail term reduced to 40 years.


Roy Whiting was jailed for life in 2001


High Court judge Mr Justice Simon cut the 50-year term set by former Home Secretary David Blunkett, following a legal challenge by killer Roy Whiting.

Whiting, now 51, was jailed for life in 2001 for the kidnap and murder of eight-year-old Sarah, from West Sussex.

Mr Justice Simon, sitting in London, told a packed courtroom he had concluded that the "appropriate" period Whiting must spend behind bars before he can apply for parole was 40 years.

He stressed Whiting's sentence remained one of imprisonment for life and that he would be detained "unless and until the Parole Board is satisfied that he no longer presents a risk to the public".



Sarah was kidnapped and murdered by Whiting


Mr Justice Simon added: "I invite everyone present in court, before we go about our daily business, to pause and for a moment remember Sarah Payne, who would now be 18 if she had not been murdered, and reflect the grave loss her death has caused to her family and others who loved her."

Mr Blunkett's decision had meant Whiting would not be considered for release until he was 93; the reviewed term means he will not be considered until he is 83.

Since the original term was laid out, the law has changed so that tariffs are now set by judges, enabling lifers who were notified of their minimum term by a Home Secretary to apply to the High Court for a review.

The child's mother, Sara Payne, was in court to hear the ruling in Whiting's case.

Speaking after the hearing, she said: "The family is clearly disappointed that the tariff has been reduced, but he will be well into his 80s before he is eligible, so it's not a terrible, terrible thing, and could have been a lot worse, so we carry on as before.

"The family obviously doesn't get a parole date. There's no end to this. This is our life from now on.

"The man is a danger to children and will remain so as long as he lives and breathes."



Sara Payne, mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne


Her daughter was snatched by Whiting on July 1 2000, near the home of her grandparents in West Sussex.

After a huge search, Sarah's body was discovered in a field 16 days later off the A29 at Pulborough.

Since the murder, Mrs Payne has campaigned tirelessly for victims' rights and for a change in the law to publicise where sex offenders live.

Mrs Payne, who was critically ill last year and underwent brain surgery, said earlier she was now "okay" but that she had now "not got" a left side of her body.

Roy Whiting should have been put down, like the viscious subhuman he is, 10 years knocked off his sentence why??

I felt physically sick when i saw the pic in the paper off whiting and thought that THAT was the last face she would off seen before she died.

I want to kill the bastard.

kitti wrote:I felt physically sick when i saw the pic in the paper off whiting and thought that THAT was the last face she would off seen before she died.

I want to kill the bastard.

Me too Kitti!!! Actually I think looking at that perverted bastards face would have been the last of poor little Sarahs worries.
It makes me so cross when I hear Gerry say, Madeleine has probably been abducted by a paedophile, then in his next breath say, there is no evidence that she has come to any harm!