Rikki Neave killer gets 15 years

The mother of murdered schoolboy Rikki Neave said she is still branded a killer 26 years after she was cleared, Ruth Neave, now 53, was tried in 1996 for her son’s murder but was acquitted by a Northampton Crown Court jury. She was jailed for seven years after admitting child cruelty. The real murderer was James Watson, then 13, who stripped the schoolboy naked in November 1994 and left his naked body posed in a ‘star shape’ in woodland in…