Release
Whiting was released from prison in November 1997, having serving 2 years and 5 months of his 4-year sentence, and was one of the first people in Britain to go on the sex offenders' register. Whiting, knowing that he would not be welcome back in Crawley, moved some 25 miles (40 km) away to Littlehampton on the West Sussex coast, where he rented a flat in St Augustine's Road. Two years later he moved into another flat in the same road. On 2 July 2000 officers from Sussex Police visited his flat making inquiries into the disappearance of Sarah Payne.
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