A 41-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum sentence of 15 years for the murder of Rikki Neave School, who was found strangled in a forest near Peterborough almost 28 years ago.
James Watson, without a permanent residence, was convicted in April in London’s Old Bailey of murder in 1994 after a DNA breakthrough in 2016 revealed that when he was 13, he had been in physical contact. with those of six years. -Children on the day of his disappearance.
Watson, who has a long list of previous convictions, including sexual assault, dodged detection for more than two decades, changing his account of his interactions with Neave as accumulated evidence against him.
Judge McGowan convicted Watson Friday as a teenager, as required by law, telling him he had to spend at least 15 years in prison before being considered for release.
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