Sarah Payne’s murderer Roy Whiting ‘vows to sue prison chiefs for £10k after being attacked four times in jail’
He is currently serving 40 years for murdering the eight-year-old and is said to have moaned he is a 'dead man walking'
SARAH Payne's murderer Roy Whiting has reportedly vowed to sue prison chiefs after being attacked four times while locked up.
The 60-year-old child killer is alleged to want £10,000 after claiming he hasn't been protected from fellow lags.
He is currently serving 40 years for murdering the eight-year-old and has moaned he is a "dead man walking", the Daily Star reports.
A source said: “Whiting is sensing some cash so he can sit in his cell all day and not work.
“He reckons the fact that he has to leave his cell each day to go to work makes him a target and says it is only a matter of time before he’s done in properly.
“He says the prison has failed to look after him and is going to go for £10,000 and then he’ll have enough cash in his prison bank account not to work.
“He claims to be a dead man walking and his fearful for his life.”
Sarah was abducted and murdered by Whiting as she played hide and seek with her brothers in a cornfield near her grandparent's home in July 2000.
After 17 days of searching her body was found in a field near Oulborough, around 15 miles from where she disappeared in Kingston Gorse.
Whiting was convicted in 2001 by a jury at Lewes Crown Court, after a trial lasting almost four weeks.
He is at maximum security Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire, which houses to some of Britain's most dangerous inmates.
And after a fourth attack, Whiting apparently hopes to use the money he wants from prison chiefs to then quit his £21-a-week job packing goods in a workshop.
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The former mechanic has been slashed with a razor and stabbed with a sharpened toilet brush in a number of attacks.
In early 2017, he was battered with a flask by another prisoner, and in November 2018 he was battered and left for dead by two fellow murderers.
The Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said it doesn't comment on individual prisoners.
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