James Watson found guilty of murdering Rikki Neave in 1994

Watson convicted after DNA showed he had been in physical contact with six-year-old on day he disappeared

A 41-year-old man described as a fantasist" and a monster" has been found guilty of the murder of the schoolboy Rikki Neave, who was found strangled in woods near Peterborough nearly 28 years ago.

James Watson, of no fixed abode, was convicted by a jury's majority verdict at the Old Bailey in London of the 1994 murder after a DNA breakthrough in 2016 revealed that, as a 13-year-old, he had been in physical contact with the six-year-old boy on the day of his disappearance.