Mother’s ‘vow to kill Rikki’

The mother of murdered schoolboy Rikki Neave told a family aid worker ‘if something was not done with him she would kill him’ the day before he went missing, a court heard. Rikki’s body was found in woods in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on 29 November 1994, after the six-year-old 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…