Jury begins fourth day of deliberations in Rikki Neave trial

Jurors have begun a fourth day of deliberations in the trial of a man charged with murdering schoolboy Rikki Neave in 1994.

James Watson, 40, is accused of strangling the six-year-old in woods in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, leaving his naked body posed in a star shape.

He was arrested more than 20 years later after DNA on Rikki’s discarded clothes was matched to him.

Watson, of no fixed abode, has denied murder.

Jurors at the Old Bailey have been deliberating on a verdict since around noon last Wednesday

On Monday, Mrs Justice McGowan sent the jury of 12 men and women out to continue trying to reach a verdict.