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Carol Vorderman has revealed the harrowing murder that still haunts her is the death of eight-year-old Sarah Payne in 2000.Sarah disappeared while playing in a cornfield with her two older brothers and younger sister in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex.The youngster's disappearance sparked a nationwide manhunt but tragically her body was found abandoned in a field 15 miles away two weeks later.Sarah was snatched and killed by evil paedophile Roy Whiting, who was jailed for her murder in 2001, and was told he must serve a minimum of 40 years in jail.Her death shocked the nation and sparked major concerns about internet chat rooms.At the time former Countdown star Carol feared that chatrooms had become a breeding ground for sex offenders - sparking her to join charities and academics to campaign to improve safety measures around the grooming of young children.As part of her work she joined a task force, which passed the UK's first Online Grooming act, and established a protection body known as the CEOP - now part of the National Crime Agency.The presenter explained: "It was an abduction and murder that shocked us as a nation and deeply changed our attitudes towards child safety."We realised legislation was needed to protect the youngest in society and fast but it seemed impossible at the time.But Carol now fears that virtual online spaces like the Metaverse could result in a new epidemic of paedophiles targeting young children online.

A former prison officer at Strangeways has revealed how inmates settled scores on a specific day. Neil "Sam" Samworth, the author of two books on his experiences 'inside', worked at the prison for eleven years and crossed paths with some of the country's most notorious criminals.

Police searching for the missing mum have come under criticism from a number of former officers, who say it was wrong to assume that she accidentally fell into the River Wyre.Martyn Underhill, a former Sussex Police Force detective who was a senior officer in the Sarah Payne murder investigation says Lancashire police were wrong to rule out foul play so quickly.READ MORE: New Nicola Bulley mystery as husband begs Mercedes to track missing car keysReferring to the spot where Nicola’s phone and dog lead were found, he said: “That bench on that river in my view should have gone to a forensic laboratory.“If Nicola had been attacked there could be blood spatterings on it,” he pointed out.The fact that the bench still remains in place, and has become a place of pilgrimage for well-wishers and amateur detectives, is “questionable to put it bluntly,” Martyn added. Martyn's words were echoed by former Met Police detective Simon Harding, who wrote in the Sunday Times: "You would expect the area where Nicola was last seen to be cordoned off… to stop people descending on it as a tasteless tourist spot and trampling the area — losing any potential evidence”.

looking for clues on land for the location of the missing mum after his detailed scans of the River Wyre around St Michael’s, Lancashire, produced no results.The private search specialist said that “normally people aren’t found too far away, often within a couple of miles”. READ MORE: New Nicola Bulley mystery as husband begs Mercedes to track missing car keys “I’m looking at Ordnance Survey maps of the surrounding areas to search for possible deposition sites,” he told The Times.Peter said he was going to focus on “ditches, hedgerows, wooded areas where it is possible to park a vehicle and deposit a body without being seen".He added that people living within a few miles of the tiny Lancashire village of St Michael's on Wyre should be on the lookout for “any suspicious activity.”Peter’s announcement follows a call by Paul Ansell, Nicola’s partner, for a detailed search of “every house, every garage, every outbuilding” in the area.Paul has made it clear that he disagrees with the Lancashire Police theory that Nicola suffered an accident and fell into the river while walking their dog, Willow.The local force has also come in for criticism from Martyn Underhill, a former Sussex Police Force detective who was a senior officer in the Sarah Payne murder investigation.He said that the bench, where Nicola’s phone and Willow’s lead were found, will have have been closely examined by police on the day she was reported missing.“That bench on that river in my view should have gone to a forensic laboratory,” he said. “If Nicola had been attacked there could be blood spatterings on it.

Carol Vorderman has issued a worrying warning concerning trolling and online abuse following her experiences investigating the introduction of chat rooms 20 years ago.

Channel 5 documentary, HMP Wakefield: Evil Behind Bars, has focused on the Yorkshire institution, and in one section highlighted the jail’s large amounts of sex offenders.Containing infamous names including Roy Whiting – who was convicted of abducting and murdering 8 year-old Sarah Payne in 2000 – the so-called 'Monster Mansion' is also home to Robert Maudsley, who has spent more than 30 years locked up.As well as revealing details about life inside, the documentary offered viewers an understanding of labels given to offenders during their time as inmates.Mark, a former inmate, began by explaining that HMP Wakefield carried a reputation for housing prisoners who would typically be held in solitary confinement in other jails.“What prisoners refer to as ‘nonces’, or sex offenders, or people in prison for serious crimes against women and children,” he added.And, Noel ‘Razor’ Smith, who did time at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire, suggested that HMP Wakefield had been so full of prisoners who had taken part in sex crimes, that a new term had been invented.“Wakefield is where the word ‘nonce’ for sex offender actually originated,” he claimed.Noel explained that this term had been developed because of the risk to sex offenders of being attacked when prisoners were let out of their cells.He continued: “They had a slate board outside the cell with your name and number, and they would put the letters, ‘N.O.N.C.E’ on it, which actually meant ‘not on normal courtyard exercise’.“So when the staff came round to unlock everybody for exercise and let them out, when they saw nonce on the door they would leave them locked up because they knew if they let them out, the other prisoners would attack them.“So it became the universal word for

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Roy Whiting was a prime suspect in the abduction and murder of eight-year-old Sarah Payne – but it took 1,300 cops and a £2million investigation to put him behind bars.