Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story

Sarah Payne: A Mother's Story

2017•1h 30m

TV MovieCrimeDocumentary

Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old girl who was kidnapped and killed in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex, in 2000. Two weeks after her disappearance, Sarah's body was found, and after a high profile police investigation, Roy Whiting was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Testimonies from friends, family, police officers, key witnesses and experts in criminology are combined with an interview with Sarah's mother, to illustrate the tragic toll the case took on those closest to the victim.

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Honeysuckle Weeks

Honeysuckle Weeks

Narrator (voice)

Sara Payne

Herself - Sarah Payne's mother

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