CHILD campaigner Sara Payne has begun to talk again after being struck down by a brain aneurysm before Christmas.

Friends reported the 40-year-old, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah, asked her sister Fiona to continue her work to help victims of child sex abuse.

Fellow campaigner Shy Keenan told the Sun newspaper: “Sara is by no means out of the woods yet, but over the last week she has fought like a tiger.”

Mrs Payne had been kept in a coma by doctors to help her recover after being rushed to St George’s Hospital, in London, on December 23.

Her daughter Sarah was murdered by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting as she played near her grandparents’ home in Kingston Gorse, near Littlehampton in 2000.

Mrs Payne has since campaigned for a law to tell parents if a paedophile lives near them and was awarded an MBE in 2008 for her work.