Episode 326 - Sarah Payne: Into Thin Air

Vanishing in seconds when her older brother turned away, 8-year-old Sarah Payne’s high-profile disappearance gripped the nation. But as mother and father begged for answers and hoped to see their little girl again, sadly it would leave a very different legacy.

This truly heartbreaking case would change the British legal system forever – not before Rebekah Brooks and ‘News of The World’ brought the British media into absolute chaos.

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Sources:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/nov/14/4
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1859160.sarah-payne-investigation-cost-nearly-3m/
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/the-murder-of-sarah-payne-20-years-on
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1363002/Sarahs-parents-overwhelmed-as-jury-hears-of-her-violent-death.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1349167/Sarah-body-is-found-12-miles-away.html
https://archive.org/details/sarapaynemothers0000payn/mode/2up
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2001/dec/12/childprotection2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/1156763.stm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/british-police-confirm-body-is-sarah-payne-s-706809.html
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/the-murder-of-sarah-payne-20-years-on
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sarahs-law-protects-more-than-200-children-in-first-year#:~:text=More%20than%20200%20children%20have,scheme%2C%20it%20was%20announced%20today.&text=Over%20the%20last%2012%20months,and%20over%20900%20formal%20applications

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