Accused killer of Rikki Neave admitted assaulting boy

Accused child killer James Watson admitted to police he assaulted a five-year-old boy parts 18 months before the murder of Rikki Neave, a court heard. Watson, now 40, is accused of strangling six-year-old Rikki in a Peterborough wood in November 1994, before stripping and posing his body in a ‘star shape’. He would have been 13 at the time of the killing. Eighteen months before Rikki’s death, on 14 April 1993, when Watson was 12, he was accused of touching…