The 2000 abduction and murder of 8 year old Sarah Payne by Roy William Whiting was a high profile child slaying in the UK at the time. Whiting was born in Horsham on January 26, 1959 and lived almost all of his life up until the murder in Crawley. He was one of six children of a working class family but three of his siblings died in infancy. Whiting married an 18 year old woman named Linda Booker in 1986; he quickly lost interest in her after she became pregnant with his son and they separated and divorced. He had an out-of-wedlock daughter with another woman a few years later. Whiting also did competitive banger racing for some years but wasn't very good at it and abandoned the sport. He made a living through various blue collar jobs.The first time Whiting got in trouble with the law happened when he kidnapped and raped an 8 year old girl in Crawley on March 4, 1995. He was arrested a few weeks later when an acquaintance reported to police that the abductor drove a red Ford Sierra; Whiting had just sold such a car and the vehicle was traced to its new owner, a knife hidden in the trunk. He pled guilty to abduction and indecent assault on June 23 and got four years in prison despite a psychiatrist's warning that he was going to strike again if released. In fact Whiting didn't even serve four years; he was paroled November 8, 1997 after two years and five months. He would have gotten out even earlier than that; his release date would have been 6/23/97, exactly two years since he was sentenced, but he had refused to participate in a prison sex offender therapy program and was penalized by getting an additional five months tacked onto his sentence.
July 1, 2000. Sarah Payne (DOB 10/13/91), a resident of Hersham, went missing from a farm field near her grandfather's home in Kingston Gore. Payne was last seen playing with her three siblings when she vanished. A police search of the area quickly mushroomed into a nationwide news story with her parents pleading for her safe return. Roy Whiting was initially questioned by police the next day along with a variety of other suspects, resulting in one arrest. On the 10th, police announced that they got information about the sighting of a girl resembling Sarah at Knutsford Services on the M6 motorway in Cheshire but three days later they told her parents that the possibility now existed that she might be dead.On July 17, her nude, decomposing remains were found in a shallow grave. Sarah's body was in poor condition due to more than two weeks outside in summer temperatures and exposure to scavenging wildlife. The limbs and feet were "partially detached" from the corpse and her hair had fallen out of her scalp and lay in a clump next to the body. Forensic pathologist Vesna Djurovic noted that the little girl was four feet and half an inch in height, normally developed and properly nourished, with no indication of any underlying medical conditions. Decomposition was extensive so no specific cause of death could be determined, however Djurovic believed asphyxiation or strangulation most likely. She also failed to find any indication of sexual assault, although with the condition of Sarah's body it was possible that evidence of it was gone by now. No physical injuries were found on the body.
Police had initially visited Roy Whiting's flat on July 2 but he wasn't home. They came back in a few hours and spoke with him for about one hour. No conclusive evidence to his guilty could be obtained, but they did notice he seemed detached and un-concerned about Sarah's disappearance. He tried to take off in his van shortly afterwards but was pulled over and jailed for two days. However, Whiting had to be released for lack of any reason to hold him although a petrol receipt for a filling station near Pulborough was found, which contradicted his alibi of being at a carnival at Hove on the 1st. He moved out of his flat and went to live with his father in Crawley. Three days after Sarah's body was found, one of her shoes turned up along the roadside in Coolham, three miles from Pulborough.On July 23, Whiting stole a Vauxhall Nova in Crawley and led police on a high speed chase before crashing into a parked car. He was arrested for reckless driving and kept jailed for two months until he pled guilty to that charge and vehicle theft and received a 22 month jail sentence. While this was going on, police examined his Fiat Ducato van which he'd purchased from a used car lot two weeks before Sarah disappeard. Whiting was charged with her murder on February 6, 2001. He pled not guilty. His trial began November 14 in Lewes Crown Court. Sarah's eldest brother remembered seeing a raggedy-looking man with yellow teeth driving through Kingston Gore on July 1 but he failed to identify Whiting from a police lineup. Sarah's shoe had fibers from Whiting's van on it but the rest of her clothing remained unaccounted for. A single blonde hair on a T-shirt was also found in the van and DNA testing concluded that the odds of it not being Sarah's were "a billion to one." Two individuals remembered seeing a white van parked on July 1 near where Sarah's body was found.
On December 12, after four weeks in the courtroom, Whiting was found guilty of kidnapping and murder and received life in prison. The information about Whiting's conviction and prison sentence for the earlier 1995 child abduction had been kept under wraps to ensure he could receive a fair trial and was not publicly disclosed until afterwards. There were calls to make the UK's sex offender registry publicly accessible; unlike sex offender registries in many US states, the UK's is only accessible to law enforcement agencies. The Home Office however argued that keeping it out of the public view was necessary to prevent vigilante attacks on sex criminals and to avoid driving them "underground" and be harder to locate and monitor.The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority awarded the Paynes a compensation payment of £11,000 about one year after the girl's murder, which Sara Payne considered a "joke" but it was the most they were allowed by law to give them. The psychological strain of the murder caused Sarah's parents to separate in 2003. Her father Michael fell into depression and began to drink heavily; in December 2011 he was convicted of assault for stabbing his brother with a broken glass bottle while drunk and received a 16 month jail sentence. Michael Payne was found dead in his Maidstone residence on October 30, 2014. He had died about five days earlier and there was no sign of foul play; the cause of death was believed to be complications of alcoholism.
Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered Whiting to serve at least 50 years in prison, so he would be in his 90s before he'd be eligible for parole. In 2010, Whiting's attorneys on appeal managed to get ten years knocked off his sentence on the grounds that the 50 year sentence was politically motivated.On August 4, 2002, Whiting was assaulted in HMP Wakefield Prison by an inmate named Rickie Tregaskis, who cut him with a razor blade. Tregaskis, who had murdered a disabled man in Cornwall, got an additional six years tacked onto his sentence. Whiting was attacked again in July 2011 when he was stabbed in the eye. The injury was a minor one and he declined to name or press charges against his assailant. On November 8, 2018, he was stabbed in his cell by two inmates and treated at a hospital for minor injuries. On February 11, 2024, Whiting was stabbed yet again. The injury was described as "minor."Roy Whiting will be eligible for parole in 2041, when he is 82.
Meanwhile, posh nonces molest children by the hundreds and were knighted by the Queen for it.
>>17412302Jesus Christ, British people talk so fucking gay.
>>17412289if this guy was an "immigrant", he would have gotten about ten years.
>>17412308>yeah a child got raped and murdered by whitey>but what about muh interracial fantasies?Mentally insane /pol/tranny
>>17412308>a child deserved to be brutally murdered because of the /pol/ fantasy that exists in my head
>>17412273it's a little odd how that works because here sex offender registries are usually public info but you can't look up license plate #s unless you're a cop, yet in many countries anyone can look up license plates
>>17412254>8 year old gets brutally raped>gets 4 years and only did half of that...
>>17412308^LOLthis.
>>17412355see >>17412320>this child deserved to die because she theoretically could have become a slag
>>17412302yeah you only go to prison if you're some unimportant meaningless chav. poshfags and brown people get a slap on the wrist.
>>17412289>Roy Whiting will be eligible for parole in 2041, when he is 82.you just wait for it. he'll live that long and probably also get paroled.
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>Low IQ, sunni salfist pakis rape thousands of little white British girls and get 0 jail time> Beady eyed, blue collar brit gets life in prison Absolute state of the "Allies"
>>17412416The former case led to multiple people getting sentences up to 35 years.
>>17412377English judges can recommend that someone never be released even if parole is technically possible. Just like in Canada, someone with a very violent criminal history might be able to have a parole hearing but the panel can yeet the request if they judge it necessary.
>>17412416Well, not really life since he could well live to be paroled.
>>17412416I mean, if he was posh he wouldn't get any jail time either.
>>17412289Some tough guy nonce avengers these inmates were. Just managed to cut him a bit.
>>17412416I mean, technically he was not convicted of rape since there was a lack of evidence of that, he was just convicted of murder.
>>17412377What the fuck is the point of paroling people past the age of 50? It's over. You have no working years left and everyone you know is dead or forgot you existed.
>>17412505It depends if they've been allowed to keep in contact with people and whether they're prepared for reentry.
>>17412263looks like an 80s Econoline
fuck nonces, man
>>17412352That had a theoretical life sentence but he only got 4 years because he pled guilty.
>>17412352Abduction and indecent assault, not rape.
>>17412273>There were calls to make the UK's sex offender registry publicly accessible; unlike sex offender registries in many US states, the UK's is only accessible to law enforcement agenciesThis is still the case in the UK and most of the world. It's not politically correct to say it, but it checks out statistically. Usually sex offenses are committed by family members or other acquaintances the victim already knows. Ditto for child abductions. Cases of random strangers molesting or abducting kids are rare, and if police and hiring departments at schools and youth programs can access the registry you can prevent most child sex offenses without risking vigilantism or leaving a guy permanently unemployed because he had sex with a 16yo at 18 in certain states.
the OP doesn't mention that he was one of the first persons ever put on the UK S/O registry which had just been introduced in the late '90s
>>17412302Funny how the bong twats who complain about the "posh nonces" don't seen to care too much about the "Paki nonces".
>>17412254>rape an 8 year old little girl>get sentenced to 4 years and let out in 2Honestly what a fucking joke of a country, and that was back in 1995? Listen Canada isn't the greatest for things like this but what the fuck is it with the UK and disgracefully low prison terms for serious crimes? Are their not now people spending for time in prison for tweets and facebook posts after that terrorist kid stabbed those little girls?
>>17415466The theoretical maximum sentence for that offence was life but he pled guilty so that was why he got 4 years.
if this happened in Germany he'd get about 6-7 years
>>17415466>>17415683It was also indecent assault, not rape. The UK has people serving very lengthy prison terms for child sex abuse. The same prison (HMP Wakefield) holds some of them.
