UK Schoolboy’s Killer Finally Found Guilty After 28 Years

UK Schoolboy’s Killer Finally Found Guilty After 28 Years
Court artist drawing of James Watson appearing in the dock at the Old Bailey in London. Elizabeth Cook/PA
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The murder of a six-year-old English boy in 1994 has finally been solved after a 41-year-old man was found guilty.

James Watson, who was 13 at the time, had denied strangling and stripping Rikki Neave, whose mother Ruth was originally suspected of the crime, which took place in Peterborough.

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