Sara Payne

SaraJane "Sara" Payne MBE (née Williams; born 1 March 1969) is a British media campaigner known for her campaign for parents' right for a controlled access to the sex offender registry, spurred by the murder of her daughter Sarah in 2000.

Payne was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, on 1 March 1969. She left school in 1985, at the age of 16. Shortly after, she met her future husband Michael Payne. They married in West Sussex on 4 August 1990 and announced they had separated in September 2003, blaming the strain of coping with Sarah's murder three years earlier. They have four surviving children; two sons and two daughters, the youngest daughter born in late 2003 just after their separation. Since 2005, they have also had three grandchildren.

On 27 October 2014, Michael Payne was found dead at the age of 46 at his home in Maidstone, Kent. They had been separated for 11 years by this stage, despite media reports in the early stages of their separation that they had been hoping to get back together at some stage. The death of Michael Payne was not treated as suspicious, and was believed to have been caused by an alcoholism related illness. He is believed to have been dead for several days before his body was found.

Sara Payne also endured the death of her 44-year-old brother Paul from cancer in January 2003, and her mother Elizabeth Williams died from the same illness just over a year later. Payne's father, Brian Williams, was left partly paralysed by an aneurysm at the age of 55; he died in 2007, having been disabled since the late 1980s. Brian and Elizabeth Williams separated in the mid 1980s.

Since the murder of her daughter Sarah in July 2000, she has campaigned for parents to be given the right to know if a convicted paedophile is living in their community.
Initially, the then Home Secretary David Blunkett refused to allow any public access to the information, and several child care agencies and police forces condemned Payne's campaigning and that of other corners of the media which took part, amid fears that it could trigger vigilante violence, as well as driving paedophiles "underground" and allowing them to operate and unmonitored, placing children at even more risk. However, in 2008, eight years after the start of the campaign, a pilot scheme was introduced by four British police forces. If successful, it may be extended across the country in the future.

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