On the 24th of June 2022 James Watson was sentenced to 15 years minus 843 days for killing  our brother Rikki Neave.

We are trying to get enough people to write to the e attorney general to get Watsons sentence extended.

He was sentenced as a child. We are fully aware that he was 13 at the time of the crime but there are a lot of facts we don’t feel have been taken into consideration.  

James Watson evaded justice for over 27 years. He was able to live a normal life in which he still abused and assaulted young boys. He didn’t just commit this murder at 13 and not continue his child abuse behaviours his character is that of a child abuser and not a normal person who made a mistake.

James Watson was released on bail in July 2016 for the murder of Rikki and placed in a bail hostel where he fled the UK in a camper van with another criminal. Then decided to contact the press and flaunt that he had evaded the police once again. During this time his sister applied for a British passport for him and had plans to send it to Portugal so he could run further. 

James Watson was engaging in adult behaviour at the age of 13. He was having sex, roaming the streets smoking and also killing animals. James Watson sexually assaulted a 6 year old boy a few months before killing Rikki. This we believe was a pre meditated attack on our brother. He wasn’t a young child who made a mistake he was a troubled boy whom has carried his behaviours into his adult life. 

One of my main concerns is that JW even as an ‘Adult’ he CHOSE to keep this from the police for 27 years he CHOSE to evade and try and sabotage and avoid any sort of police questioning even as an adult which he would also have known it was unlawful and wrong to kill a child. Never once did this perpetrator come forward to right his wrong he did rather the opposite. 

This killer shouldn’t have been allowed to have been sentenced as a child. He will serve 12.5 years for ruining our whole lives. Me and my other siblings all suffer with mental health problems due to this. I really feel that the sentence given was far to lenient and that he will always be a danger to young children / and young men and of course members of the public.

As he stood in court he had absolutely no remorse or emotion towards the whole court case and even the sentencing rolling his eyes and smirking when members of our family read their victim statements. 

if you feel like you could help by writing to the attorney general as a member of the public to help our case we would be ever so grateful. Thank you for taking the time to read and sign. 

uls.referrals@attorneygeneral.gov.uk