A “dangerous predator, fantasist and manipulator” has convicted of murdering six-year-old Rikki Neave for his own sick sexual gratification.
James Watson, 41, was found guilty by majority verdict at the Old Bailey of murdering little Rikki in 1994. A string of blunders by blinkered detectives originally led to Rikki’s mother being charged with his murder while the real killer escaped justice for 28 years, according to Mirror Online.
Forty-five key exhibits were lost or discarded by Cambridgeshire Police, including the coat Watson used to strangle Rikki and the rest of the clothing he was wearing at the time of his death.
The “catalogue of failures” can be revealed after Watson was today convicted of murdering the six-year-old in woodland near his home in Peterborough.
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