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05/12/01 - SARAH ACCUSED: "IT
WASN'T ME"
By Neil Roberts
The Mirror
The man accused of killing schoolgirl Sarah Payne would
have to be "very unlucky" to have so much
evidence against him if he was innocent, a court heard
today. Defendant Roy Whiting maintained forensic evidence
against him, including a strand of Sarah's hair found
on his clothing, was a "coincidence".
Timothy Langdale QC, prosecuting, replied it would be
an "extraordinary accident" for the hair to
be found where it was. He said: "If Sarah's hair
became dislodged from an exhibit package taken from
her home and somehow got on the bag with your red sweatshirt
you would be the most unfortunate man."
The lawyer went on: "The alternative is that barring
that extraordinary accident it can only mean one thing.
"That one thing is that you were the man who kidnapped,
you were the man who killed that child and you were
the man who buried her body. That is the only other
alternative is it not?"
The builder, from West Sussex, who was giving evidence
for a second day at Lewes Crown Court, simply replied:
"It was not me". Mr Langdale also asked if
fibres from the sweatshirt and other material from Whiting's
van being found on Sarah at the burial site was "just
coincidence."
Whiting said: "It could be coincidence. We don't
know what fibres she might have picked up." Whiting
denies the kidnap and murder of eight-year-old Sarah
Payne who went missing near her grandparents' home in
Kingston Gorse, West Sussex on July 1 last year. Her
naked body was found 16 days later, in a shallow grave.
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