In 2018, the Offender Database reported that Roy Whiting, the West Sussex Paedophile Child Killer, was assaulted again in his cell at a high-security prison.
In 2000, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was abducted and murdered by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting in West Sussex.
Roy Whiting, currently 66 years old, was convicted in 2001 of abduction and murder and was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in prison.
He was transported to the hospital after being “stabbed by two convicted murderers with improvised blades” at HMP Wakefield.
In July 2000, Sarah, a resident of Hersham, Surrey, vanished from a cornfield adjacent to her grandparents’ residence in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex.
She had been engaging in play with her siblings prior to slipping through a hedge and vanishing on a rural path.
Her body was discovered 17 days later in a field around 15 miles distant in Pulborough.
On 4 March 1995, before the murder, Roy Whiting abducted and sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl on the Langley Green estate in Crawley.
Several weeks later, he was arrested following a report from an associate of Roy Whiting, who identified the abductor’s vehicle as a red Ford Sierra, identical to the one Roy Whiting had recently sold.
Three months later, he confessed to the allegations of abduction and indecent assault and received a four-year prison sentence.
Upon conviction in 2001, the trial judge, Mr Justice Richard Curtis, said he believed Roy Whiting was “an evil man” and “a cunning and glib liar”.
The maximum sentence would have been a life sentence for the crime; however, his sentence was reduced because he had admitted to the crime.
A psychiatrist who assessed Roy Whiting after his conviction said that he was likely to re-offend once he was released.
More Attacks
- In 2002, Roy Whiting was attacked with a razor blade by fellow Wakefield inmate Rickie Tregaskis.
- In July 2011, Roy Whiting was stabbed in the eyes at Wakefield jail by fellow inmate, convicted murderer Gary Vinter.
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