A man is arrested over the death of six-year-old Rikki Neave in Peterborough in 1994
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The headlines for Cambridgeshire this evening:
The early investigation into Rikki Neave's killing in the mid 1990s saw police receive hundreds of calls from the public.
It's now 22 years since the six-year-old was found dead in woods near his home on the Welland Estate in Peterborough. Today a man was arrested in connection with the crime.
Watch as BBC Look East reported on the original investigation in 1994.
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If you're just joining us, here's the latest headlines for Cambridgeshire:
Newspapers across Cambridgeshire are reporting on the latest development in the Rikki Neave murder inquiry:
A report by the social services inspectorate three years after Rikki's death said fault primarily laid with senior management in Cambridgeshire's social services department.
The case led to a major investigation of child care procedures at Cambridgeshire County Council's social services department.
The six-year-old had been on their "at risk" register and there had been a history of abuse by his mother, Ruth Neave, who was a drug addict at the time and had pleaded for the boy to be taken into care. She admitted child neglect and cruelty and was jailed for seven years back in the 1990s.
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The events leading up to today's arrest:
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BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
I've speaking to people on the Welland Estate in Peterborough about this morning's arrest in the Rikki Neave case.
One resident remembered hearing the news of Rikki's death back in 1994, saying they felt "pretty sickened that somebody could do that to a little kid".
He was a young teenager at the time but recalled people being "frightened to let their children out".
"For a while you didn't see many kids playing out on the estate," he said.
The husband of Rikki Neave's mother, Gary Rogers, describes the moment the family were told of this morning's arrest:
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Gary Rogers (left) said he and Ruth Neave (right), Rikki's mother, had been left "speechless and numb" by this morning's arrest, adding it had brought "a lot of memories coming back for Ruth".
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I'm at a press conference that has been called by the mother of Rikki Neave, Ruth (right) and her partner Gary Rogers (left) in March, that has been called following this morning's arrest.
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Mr Rogers said: "Both me and Ruth want to thank Cambridgeshire Police lead investigators. Our reaction this morning was total shock. We didn't know this was coming. This has come straight out of the blue for us."
Helen Burchell
BBC News
In June last year a team of dedicated detectives from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit were brought in and the investigation into Rikki Neave's death was relaunched.
The cold case investigation had been "subject to a detailed review" and new forensics and DNA techniques, together with laser imaging would be used in the new investigation, Det Supt Paul Fullwood, leading the inquiry, said.
Police also handed out posters and leaflets to try and jog people's memories of what they might have seen back in 1994.
The mother of Rikki Neave held a press conference on the 20th anniversary of her son's death in 2014.
Image source, Cambridgeshire PoliceRuth Neave told the conference at the Oliver Cromwell Hotel in March that police had wrongly charged her with murder and she had new information about the death which she was handing to police.
