James Watson, 42, was handed a minimum jail term of 15 years by an Old Bailey judge after being found guilty of killing Rikki Neave when he was 13.
A 42-year-old man given a life sentence after being found guilty of murdering a six-year-old boy nearly 30 years ago has lost an appeal
Trial judge Mrs Justice McGowan said the law meant Watson, who was 13 when Rikki was found strangled in woods near his Peterborough home in November 1994, had to be handed a minimum term relevant to his age at the time of the offence.Watson challenged his conviction at a Court of Appeal hearing in London in June.
Watson, who denied murder, was charged after a police cold case review produced a DNA match eight years ago. A barrister leading Watson’s legal team told the appeal hearing a “wholesale loss and destruction of evidence” meant a fair trial was impossible.
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