UK: Man Gets Schoolboy Sentence for Childhood Murder of Rikki Neave

UK: Man Gets Schoolboy Sentence for Childhood Murder of Rikki Neave
Undated police mugshot of James Watson, who was convicted of the murder of Rikki Neave in April 2022 Cambridgeshire Police/PA
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LONDON—A 41-year-old man who murdered a six-year-old English boy in 1994 has been sentenced by a judge as if he was a schoolboy.

In what is thought to be a legal first, James Watson, who was 13 when he strangled Rikki Neave, was given the mandatory sentence for a juvenile —detention at Her Majesty’s Pleasure—at the Old Bailey on Friday.
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