Overview

• Leeds Crown Court sentenced Light to life imprisonment with a minimum term of three years on August 22 for offences arising from the February 2024 assault.
• Whiting was stabbed multiple times in his HMP Wakefield cell on February 11, 2024, before rolling under a bed to relative safety, and he remains incarcerated on a life term for Sarah Payne’s murder.
• Light pleaded guilty to wounding with intent and possessing a bladed article, while an attempted murder charge was left without a verdict and prosecutors chose not to pursue it.
• A prison officer testified that Light told Whiting, “See you you later Roy, that’s for Sarah Payne,” and the judge described the assault as frenzied and persistent.
• The court heard Light had fashioned an improvised weapon, was already serving a murder sentence, and has a long‑standing diagnosis of unstable personality disorder following years in psychiatric care, now held at HMP Whitemoor.