Rikki Neave

A new tell-all Channel 5 documentary looks into the case of murdered six-year-old Peterborough boy Rikki Neave, and how his mum Ruth waited 28 years to...

Rikki's mum reported her son missing at 6pm on Monday, November 28 in 1994. - 1Ruth Neave: Who is Rikki Neave's mum and where is she now? She approached the Cambs Times in 2014, and together with her husband Gary and editor John Elworthy, Ruth campaigned for police to reopen her case. - 2‘The Murder of Rikki Neave: The Mother's Story’ to air on Channel 5 Ruth Neave: Who is Rikki Neave's mum and where is she now? The case and trial is unpacked in The Murder of Rikki Neave: The Mother's Story, which features a TV exclusive interview with Ruth Neave.

His mother, Ruth Neave, was initially accused of killing her son. She went on trial in 1996 and was acquitted of murder but pleaded guilty to five counts of ...

Following on from his trial at the Old Bailey in London, he is set to be sentenced next month, on May 9. Six-year-old Rikki Reave was reported missing after he failed to arrive at his school in Peterborough on November 28, 1994. The Murder of Rikki Reave: The Mother's Story will air tonight (April 27) from 9pm.

Rikki Neave was just six years old when he was strangled to death near his home in Peterborough in 1994. Here's a look at what happened to schoolboy Rikki Neave ...

After a trial, James Watson was found him guilty of the murder of the schoolboy Rikki Neave nearly 28 years after the crime. The jury deliberated for 36 hours and 31 minutes to convict James Watson by a majority of 10 to two after an 11-week trial in 2022. From France he contacted his sister, Clair Perna, and told her he “was in a lot of trouble and he had made a huge mistake”. The police also had disturbing evidence to show that James had killed a bird and laid it out spread-eagled in a manner similar to how Rikki Neave’s body was laid. During the 2022 trial, the prosecution said James lured Rikki Neave to the woods near his home in Peterborough and strangled him from behind with a ligature or anorak collar to fulfil a “morbid fantasy” he had told his mother about three days before. When the police investigated his claim, footage of the area in 1994 showed the estate did not have a fence at that time. James had originally said he hadn’t seen Rikki on the day of his disappearance. At the time of his death, Rikki lived with his mother Ruth and two of his three sisters on the Welland Estate in Peterborough. In a sickening twist, the body of Rikki Neave was found naked and posed star-shaped with his arms outstretched and legs wide apart. Witnesses told police they had spotted James Watson playing with Rikki on the day of the killing. She said that Rikki was sometimes forced to steal food from the local shop as there was no food in the house. It took 27 years for James Watson to finally be convicted for the murder of Rikki Neave – but how did it take police so long to catch him?

VIEWERS of the harrowing documentary detailing the killing of Rikki Neave have been left "sick to their stomach" by the case.The heartbreaking Channel.

Through all the dens, shouting and shouting at him. "I decided to go and do my own search myself. She is clearly very Poorly but it’s her time to speak and tell her story." "Vulnerable" Rikki was known to social services and had been placed on the "at risk register" at the time of his death. I couldn't find him so I went across the road and shouted for him." He never came home that late.