Channel 4's 24 Hours in Police Custody returns on Monday, July 4 and explores the horrific murder of six-year-old Rikki Neave, whose body was discovered in 1994. The murder, which happened a year after the highly publicized death of two-year-old James Bulger, remained unsolved for almost 30 years.
Earlier this year - Rikki’s killer, James Watson, was sentenced to life for the murder. A two-part special of the Channel 4 hit TV series focuses on how the case was solved. The episodes follow the re-investigation of Rikki’s murder, which saw a 13-year-old Watson, strangle the young child.
Watson, now 41, was found guilty of Rikki’s murder last month. The 6-year-old’s corpse was discovered in a woodland on the Welland Estate in Peterborough, where he had been strangled with a ligature or anorak collar. Rikki’s body had been stripped, where he had been left naked with his legs and arms outstretched. Watson had previously told his mother that he had carried out the attack to fulfil a “morbid fantasy”. Rikki was found a day after he was reported missing.
