‘I was forced to admit neglecting my son’

The mother of six-year-old schoolboy Rikki Neave told a court she was ‘bullied’ into admitting child neglect as she insisted she did not murder him. Rikki’s body was found in woods in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in November 1994, after he was strangled, stripped naked and left in a ‘star pose’. Before he went missing, he lived in Redmile Walk, the Welland Estate, Peterborough with his mother, his three-year-old sister Rochelle and baby sister Sheradyn. James Watson, who would have been 13…