Original 1994 police inquiry ignored evidence and instead made murder case against boy’s mother, BBC finds.
Prof Brown said: "I focused on the right shoe because that had mud on the positive tread and that is significant. The ridges underneath your shoes, the positive tread, don't normally have mud on them as soon as you go on to tarmac or a pavement or a hard surface."
Prof Brown had offered to examine Ruth's pushchair, which would have been covered in mud if it had been pushed through the woods in that wet autumn, but it was never sent. Forensic scientist Peter Lamb had isolated fibres on Rikki's clothes that could have come from his killer and was expecting to be sent clothing belonging to potential suspects.
He claimed he may have lifted Rikki to help him see over a fence, but police found archive TV footage showing there was no fence in 1994."They interviewed me for days and all the time I begged them to try to find my son's real killer," said Ruth.
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