Tag: Peterborough

UK: Man Gets Schoolboy Sentence for Childhood Murder of Rikki Neave

LONDON—A 41-year-old man who murdered a six-year-old English boy in 1994 has been sentenced by a judge as if he was a schoolboy. In what is thought to be a legal first, James Watson, who was 13 when he strangled Rikki Neave, was given the mandatory sentence for a juvenile —detention at Her Majesty’s Pleasure—at…


UK Schoolboy’s Killer Finally Found Guilty After 28 Years

The murder of a six-year-old English boy in 1994 has finally been solved after a 41-year-old man was found guilty. James Watson, who was 13 at the time, had denied strangling and stripping Rikki Neave, whose mother Ruth was originally suspected of the crime, which took place in Peterborough. Ruth Neave was acquitted of murder…