43 - The Abduction & Murder of Sarah Payne
Mens Rea: A true crime podcast
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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the mens rea podcast and this is the story of Sarah Payne. Oh, Sarah Payne was born on the 13th of October 1991. She was a lovely easy baby and a fun child to be around. |
| 0:50.0 | Her parents Michael and Sarah met while they were both in school and they started dating. |
| 0:55.2 | They fell in love and quickly started a family. They had two sons and then daughter Sarah |
| 1:01.6 | followed by little sister Charlotte all within a few years. |
| 1:06.0 | They both came from working class backgrounds but as a family they always got by |
| 1:11.5 | and had a good support system from their own families. |
| 1:15.5 | Sarah worked in pubs mainly and Mike had initially worked in off licenses like his parents had done |
| 1:21.5 | but started exhibiting signs of mental health problems and was eventually |
| 1:25.6 | diagnosed with manic depression. But despite these problems the pains had a very busy family life, and eventually after many moves settled in a three bedroom |
| 1:35.3 | council house in Arch Road in Hersham. They'd moved about a lot while Mike was managing off |
| 1:40.6 | licenses but they'd moved back to Walton, the town that they were from, when he began |
| 1:45.0 | having health difficulties in order to be closer to family and support. He began working nights, |
| 1:50.7 | first at a petrol station and then as a paint sprayer in a factory. |
| 1:55.1 | Their house was messy and lively and full of laughter. A lot of the laughter was from Sarah. She was a very |
| 2:02.3 | girly girl and loved frilly dresses and makeup. She was very sensitive and in touch with her emotions. |
| 2:09.0 | Sarah loved make-believe, magic, fairies, and rainbows. |
| 2:13.7 | She loved school and would cry at the summer holidays. |
| 2:17.6 | She was chosen by the school in her final year in primary to be a so-called befriender, an older kid who would look out for others who were having a tough time, |
| 2:26.6 | or found themselves with no one to play with, or were feeling sad and lonely. |
| 2:31.2 | She was affectionate, always full of hugs and kisses. and with her family. The family often visited Mike's parents, Terry and Leslie, after their move to |
| 2:46.1 | Art Road. They had actually been living in his parents' house when they first moved back to |
| 2:51.2 | Walton, while Terry and Les lived nearer to the shop that they managed, |
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