Rikki’s mother wrote ‘idiot’ on his forehead

The mother of murdered schoolboy Rikki Neave branded his forehead with the word ‘idiot’ in green crayon, a court heard. Rikki’s body was found in woods in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on 29 November 1994, after the six-year-old was strangled, stripped naked and left in a ‘star pose’. James Watson, who would have been 13 at the time, is now 40 and denies the schoolboy’s murder. Watson was arrested after sophisticated technology found a ‘definitive match’ between his DNA profile and samples…