The mother of murdered Sarah Payne is reportedly desperately ill in hospital with a rare complication from a previous brain operation.

Child protection campaigner Sara Payne, 40, underwent life-saving surgery last year to seal the bleeding from an aneurysm – a swollen blood vessel – in her head, last year.

Her eight-year-old daughter Sarah was killed by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting, after she disappeared from fields in Kingston Gorse, near Littlehampton.

Mrs Payne led the a campaign called Sarah's Law following her daughter's death, fighting for the right for parents to know if paedophiles are living near them.

After last year's operation she made a good recovery but was rushed back to St George's Hopsital in Tooting, south London, this week, after a clip inserted in the operation is understood to have come loose, resulting in bleeding which has put her life at risk.