Jury retire in Rikki Neave murder trial

The jury trying the alleged killer of schoolboy Rikki Neave retired to consider its verdict today (weds) after a two-and-a-half-month trial. Six-year-old Rikki was found in woodland in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, stripped naked and left in a ‘star pose’ on 29 November 1994. James Watson, who was 13 at the time but is now 40, denies Rikki’s murder. He was arrested after sophisticated technology found a ‘definitive match’ between his DNA profile and samples taken from Rikki’s clothing after a new…