Rikki Neave: Mother acquitted of killing son, 6, ‘feels dead inside’ as real murderer jailed 27 years later

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The mother of murdered schoolboy Rikki Neave has said she feels “dead inside” after his killer was finally jailed 27 years on.

Police originally suspected Ruth Neave of being responsible for the killing of her six-year-old son, who was strangled to death in woods near their Peterborough home in November 1994.