Payne tells of anger at Sara snaps in killer's cell

Roy Whiting, 51, reportedly had newspaper and magazine cuttings about eight-year-old Sarah Payne and other young girls in his cell at Wakefield Prison.

The disturbing discovery was made during a routine search and detailed in a prison report seen by the Sunday Mirror.

Mrs Payne, 40, told the News of the World: "I felt anger and dismay when told what he had been doing. This is extremely unfortunate and gives me the creeps.

"We live in an age where material like this is easily available and the Prison Service can only do its best to try and restrict it."

She added: "Collecting newspaper clippings is, I am sure, Roy Whiting and other paedophiles' way of trying to intimidate the families of their victims."

The Sunday Mirror quoted the 2009 report as saying: "It appears that his interest in young girls continues to be evident within the prison environment."

The report said Whiting refused to accept responsibility for Sarah's murder in 2000.

She vanished while playing with her brothers and sister in a field near her grandparents' house in Littlehampton, Sussex.

Search teams looked for 16 days before her naked body was found 12 miles away.

A Prison Service spokeswoman said: "We don't comment on individual cases.

"Where inappropriate materials are found in prisoners' cells they are immediately removed and the prisoner may be subject to disciplinary proceedings.

"Behaviour in prison is one of the factors considered by the Parole Board in their decision-making."