‘Rikki’s body was not in the woods’

A police officer who searched the path where murdered six-year-old Rikki Neave was found told a court today (mon) his body was ‘absolutely not’ there the previous night. Former PC Robert McNeill, now known as Roberto Silveri, said he would have ‘stood on’ Rikki’s body if had discovered it that night. Rikki was found in woodland in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, on 29 November 1994, after he was strangled, stripped naked and left in a ‘star pose’. James Watson, who would have…