The Latest Breaking News from Ruth Neave

Rikki Neave: Man guilty of murdering six-year-old boy 28 years after naked body found in the woods

The case was reopened in 2014, 20 years after the schoolboy’s body was found

The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022

The tragic life and death of Rikki Neave

Regarded as a “little forager”, the tragic six-year-old boy was pitied by his neighbours, who gave him food and drink.

The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022

Mystery solved after 27 years as fantasist found guilty of Rikki Neave’s murder

Watson was 13 when he lured the six-year-old to woods near his home in Peterborough on November 28 1994.

The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022

Plea to resolve 27-year murder mystery of Rikki Neave

The six-year-old was strangled to death in Peterborough in 1994.

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2022

Murdered schoolboy Rikki Neave was ‘seen alive on night he vanished’

The six-year-old was seen outside a shop between 6.30pm and 7pm on the evening he was reported missing, a court was told

The Independent UK · Mar 29, 2022

Rikki Neave’s stepfather gives evidence to murder trial from beyond the grave

Dean Neave was not living with Rikki’s mother Ruth at the time the youngster went missing in Peterborough on November 28 1994.

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2022

Murdered Rikki Neave’s mother denies ‘high priestess of the occult’ claim

Ruth Neave was cleared of killing her six-year-old son.

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2022

Rikki Neave’s mother denies catalogue of child abuse

Ruth Neave was cleared of her son’s murder but admitted child cruelty.

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022

Rikki Neave’s mother ‘horrified’ to be jailed for ‘smacking’ children

James Watson, 40, denies strangling Rikki Neave near his Peterborough home in 1994.

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022

Mother of Rikki Neave ‘told the truth and nothing but the truth’, jury told

Ruth Neave was called to give evidence during James Watson’s murder trial.

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2022