Fixated on theory the killer was the victim's mother... the police bungles that let Rikki Neave's twisted killer go free for 28 YEARS Police blunders allowed a teenager who killed a six-year-old boy in a sexually motivated murder to remain at large for almost 30 years - during which time it is feared he committed more sick offences. James Watson was just 13 when he lured Rikki Neave into woods and strangled him, before leaving his naked body posed in a star shape. But detectives who investigated the November 1994 Peterborough murder became fixated on the theory the killer was the victim's mother Ruth -then a 28-year-old drug addict with an interest in the occult. Rikki Neave's killer James Watson, now 41, was jailed 28 years after he should have been She was charged with murder and subsequently acquitted but remained the chief suspect. Watson, now 41, should have been the prime suspect from the start, despite his young age - the case came a year after the murder of toddler James Bulger by two ten-year-olds.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10741329/Fixated-killer-mother-police-bungles-let-Rikki-Neaves-murderer-free-28-years.html
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