Accused child killer ‘throttled girlfriend during sex’

Accused killer James Watson regularly put his hands around the neck of a girlfriend when they had sex, the Old Bailey heard. Watson, 40, is accused of strangling six-year-old Rikki Neave in Peterborough in November 1994, before stripping and posing his body in a ‘star shape’. Watson was 13 at the time of the murder and jurors have heard he allegedly sexually assaulted a five-year-old boy 18 months before the killing. A woman, who cannot be named, told jurors on…