Sex killer faces life term for murdering six year old Rikki Neave

A sex killer who strangled six-year-old Rikki Neave to death when he was just 13 is facing a life sentence after the boy’s mother was wrongly accused of the murder. James Watson stripped the schoolboy naked in November 1994 and left his body posed in a ‘star shape’ in woodland in Peterborough. He wrapped the collar of Rikki’s blue anorak around the younger boy’s throat from behind him, pulling tightly for at least 30 seconds. Watson had molested a five-year-old…