I won't let my daughter's killer live in my head, says Sarah Payne's mother
Summary
Sara Payne says she does not want her daughter Sarah’s killer, Roy Whiting, to dominate her thoughts and wants to help change how people understand victims of crime. A new BBC podcast revisits Sarah’s 2000 abduction and murder and Sara’s campaign for Sarah’s Law, which took effect in 2011.Key Facts
- Sarah Payne was eight when she was abducted while playing with her siblings in July 2000.
- Her body was found 17 days after she went missing from a field near her grandparents’ home in West Sussex.
- Roy Whiting, a convicted sex offender, was sentenced to life in prison for Sarah’s murder in December 2001.
- Sara Payne said she does not feel anger or aggression toward Whiting and wants to move forward in a humane way.
- Sarah’s Law allows parents, guardians, or carers to ask police whether someone with access to their child has a history of child sexual offences.
- The law took effect in 2011 after Sara campaigned for it.
- The BBC podcast Sarah Payne: Unforgotten features archive material and new testimony from Sarah’s family, detectives, journalists, and politicians.
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