‘Accused killer was not alone with Rikki.’

The barrister defending the alleged killer of Rikki Neave claimed today (mon) there was ‘no evidence whatsover’ that he was alone in the woods with the six-year-old schoolboy. James Watson, now 40, allegedly strangled six-year-old Rikki Neave in woodland in Peterborough in November 1994, before stripping and posing his body in a ‘star shape’. He was arrested on 19 April 2016 after sophisticated technology found a ‘definitive match’ between his DNA profile and samples taken from Rikki’s clothing under a…