The parents of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne have named their new daughter.

Sara and Michael Payne have been agonising over the choice since the baby was born two weeks ago.

They have decided to call her Ellie Jane Louise Payne.

The couple's eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered by paedophile Roy Whiting as she played with her brothers and sisters in a field at Kingston Gorse, near Littlehampton, in July 2000.

Sara said the couple made a deliberate decision not to name their new daughter after Sarah.

She said: "That was never a possibility. Sarah was, and always will be, a unique and very special child just as all our kids are."

Ellie is younger sister to Lee, 16, Luke, 15, and Charlotte, nine.