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Murder of Sarah Payne - Part III · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Remain incarcerated until twenty fifty one, when he would be
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  ninety two years old. Shortly thereafter, both the High Court
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  and the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor
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  of another convicted murderer, Anthony Anderson, who was contesting the
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  authority of the Home Secretary to determine whether a life
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  sentence inmate should be eligible for parole. In June two
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  thousand and four, reports emerged in the media indicating that
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  Whiting intended to appeal to the High Court for a
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  reduction of his sentence. The appeal against the ruling was
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  presented on the ninth of June two thousand and ten
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  at the High Court, which holds the ultimate authority on
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  the consideration of parole for life sentence prisoners. Whiting's legal
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  representatives contended that Blunkett's decision was influenced by political motives,
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  as he had been a way for some time that
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  he was likely to lose his powers regarding the determination
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  of minimum terms for life sentence inmates. They argued that
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  the government was facing public backlash due to a firefighter's strike,
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  and this situation presented an opportunity to impose a fifty
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  year tariff on Whiting. This action was expected to resonate
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  positively with voters, given the notoriety of the crime and
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  its recent prominence in public discourse. Just prior to the
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  announcement of the decision, Myra Hindley passed away. She had
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  been the life sentence prisoner whose minimum term had been
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  progressively increased from twenty five years to a whole life
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  tariff by successive Home Secretaries, leading Hindley and her advocates
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  to assert that her sentence was being escalated in a
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  manner akin to Whitings. The High Court subsequently reduced Whiting's
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  minimum term to forty years, advancing his parole eligibility to
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  twenty forty one, which would make him eligible for parole
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  at the age of eighty two. Attacks in prison. On
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  August fourth, two thousand two, Whiting was assaulted with a
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  razor by another inmate while he was obtaining hot water
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  at HMP Wakefield. In June two thousand four, Rickie Tregaskis,
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  a convicted murderer, was found guilty of the attack that
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  resulted in a six inch scar on Whiting's right cheek.
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  Tregaski's who was serving a life sentence for the murder
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  of a disabled individual in Cornwall. Received a six year
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  prison term for this incident. In July twenty eleven, Whiting
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  experienced another assault in prison, during which he was stabbed
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  in the eye. Whiting chose not to press charges, leading
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  to the absence of a police investigation into the incident. Fortunately,
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  his injuries were not life threatening. A further attack on
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  Whiting occurred on November eighth, twenty eighteen, when he was
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  stabbed by two fellow inmates in his cell at HMP Wakefield.
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  He was subsequently hospitalized for treatment, but was returned to
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  prison shortly thereafter in stable condition. On February eleventh, twenty
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  twenty four, Whiting faced yet another attack at HMP Wakefield.
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  A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police reported at five fourteen
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  pm on Sunday, February eleventh, twoenty twenty four, police received
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  a call from a staff member at HMP Wakefield indicating
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  that a male prisoner had been stabbed. His injuries are
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  not considered life threatening or life altering. Mitigations are ongoing
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  with Wakefield CID. Sarah's Law. The initiative for Sarah's Law
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  was initiated by the News of the World newspaper commencing
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  in July two thousand as a reaction to the murder
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  of Pain. This campaign aimed to establish what is now
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  referred to as Sarah's Law, which draws its name from
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  Megan's Law in the United States following a comparable incident
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  several years prior. The campaign received strong support from her parents,
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  who were convinced that their daughter's murderer was a previously
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  convicted child sex offender. Their conviction was validated seventeen months
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  later when Roy Whiting was convicted of the murder, revealing
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  that he had a prior conviction for the abduction and
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  indecent assault of an eight year old girl. The primary
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  objective of the campaign was to persuade the government to
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  permit ren regulated access to the Sex Offender Registry, enabling
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  parents of young children to ascertain whether a child sex
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  offender resided in their vicinity. Payne's mother has consistently maintained
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  that such legislation could have prevented her daughter's tragic fate.
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  In September two thousand eight, a revised program was launched
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  in four pilot regions of England and Wales, allowing parents
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  to inquire about a specific individual who frequently interacts with
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  their children. Following its successful implementation, the Home Office announced
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  in August two thousand ten that the Child's Sex Offender
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  Disclosure Scheme would be expanded to encompass all of England.
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  This legislation empowers parents to request information from the police
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  regarding whether an individual with regular access to their children
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  has a history of sexual offenses. In July two thousand one,
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  it was reported that Paine's parents were awarded eleven thousand
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  pounds in compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority, a
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  governmental agency in the United Kingdom. Sarah Payne characterized the
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  compensation as a sick joke and derisory, despite it being
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  the maximum amount permissible