Accused killer of Rikki Neave left the country because he was ‘stressed’

Accused child killer James Watson denied fleeing the country two months after he was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Rikki Neave. Watson, 40, allegedly strangled six-year-old Rikki in a Peterborough wood in November 1994, before stripping and posing his body in a ‘star shape’. He was arrested in April 2016 after sophisticated technology found a ‘definitive match’ between his DNA profile and samples taken from Rikki’s clothing under a new investigation into the case. Wearing a blue shirt…