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BBC Radio 4
The Boy in the Woods
The Boy in the Woods, six-year-old Rikki Neave, had been strangled and left naked. His body was positioned in a distinctive star shape.People on the council estate where he lived told police they had seen his mother, Ruth, hitting and shouting at Rikki. He was on the Social Services Register of children at risk. All the people closest to Rikki were in trouble and all of them were known to the authorities who offered help. It didn't work. The day before he died his mother begged a family aid worker to take him into care, saying she would kill him.Winifred Robinson has been...
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4.7 stars from 435 ratings
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“Well researched. Well done.”
9958577584 via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
09/24/23
Excellent journalism - tragic case
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“This was very well researched and presented. A tragic death of a little boy, another case of police looking no further than their prejudices. As ever, the mother blamed by a lot of men….police, the deadbeat drug dealing father, the media. Who knows how many other children & women were...”Read full review »
janetafloat via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
08/19/23
Extraordinary
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“Extraordinary reporting. We’ve all heard about (many have experienced) abused and neglected children for decades. Nothing ever changes for them. How can we do better?”
Bellamammal via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/07/23
Recent Episodes
Dr Julia Shaw unwraps Bad People’s choice of true crime podcasts in 2022. She talks to Winifred Robinson, the acclaimed BBC journalist whose podcast The Boy in the Woods revisits the disturbing case of murdered six year-old Rikki Neave.
Julia also meets Gabriel Gatehouse about his series The...
Published 12/21/22
Published 10/18/22
In this one-off special documentary linked to her recent series 'The Boy in the Woods', Winifred Robinson brings together Lord Laming who led an inquiry into Rikki Neave's death with Dame Louise Casey, who oversaw the Troubled Families Programme, and Polly Curtis, whose written extensively about...
Published 10/18/22
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