The Death of Rikki Neave was not a Satanic Sacrifice:

The Ruth Neave Murder trial opened in a blaze of publicity on October 4th 1996. The prosecution inferred in their opening statements that Neave had ritually sacrificed her son and arranged his limbs in special positions known to be used on sacrificial victims. The prosecutor demanded the Jury return a Murder verdict and the press went wild:

BLACK MAGIC MUM SACRIFICED HER SON

Corpse like Christ on the Cross (Sport 5.10.96)

MURDERED BOY LAID OUT FOR SACRIFICE (Daily Telegraph 4.10.96)

MOTHER KILLED SON AS BLACK MAGIC SACRIFICE (Daily Express 4.10.96)

With complete disregard of the Orkney and Rochdale victimisations just four years   earlier, the British media fell over themselves to dance once again to the Satan   Hunters tune. Unbelievably a second bout of rabid scaremongering was about to   begin as yet another 'test' case on Satanic Ritual Child Abuse began. But like the   rest the Ruth Neave prosecution failed and the Satan Hunters went home empty   handed.   Hogwash about Black Magick Sacrifice didn't convince the jury, who, in   the absence of genuine evidence to prove her guilt found Ruth Neave totally inno-
cent of the Murder and Manslaughter of her child.

Quite right too, for the single crucial piece of evidence which the prosecution used   to link Rikki Neave's murder with some kind of ritual sacrifice was so obviously   flawed that one wonders what logic could have prompted the Office of Public Prosecutions to give permission to go ahead with this trial.

This crucial evidence was found by the police in Neave's home. It consisted of an   "occult magazine" which contained an illustration of a naked man spread eagled in a   similar fashion to her son's body. The court were told by the prosecution that this   was 'Vitruvian Man' and that it signified a sacrificial position.

In an attempt to convince the jury of this an 'expert witness' (Pathologist Nat Cary) told the court that

'Rikki's body was laid out so symmetrically that if a mirror had been put along a mid-line you would have seen the same pattern on either side.'

This statement is nonsense of course for a mirror only reflects the side to which it is pointing and ALWAYS reflects an exact symmetry even if the object it is bisecting is unsymmetrical! The effect of this statement appears to have been to try to convince the jury that precise positioning of Rikki's body had occurred.

Prosecution counsel, James Hunt QC, tried to build upon this by saying that Rikki's body was:

'laid out in a star or pentagram shape... the youngster may have been laid out in some form of sacrificial manner. '

Another witness for the prosecution compounded the spurious occult link by stating that Ruth Neave had claimed to have knowledge of the occult;

"Ruth told me she was a high priestess of the Occult, she was into Black Magic"

Then the prosecution introduced the third and last 'Occult Significator' a book written by Aleister Crowley titled MAGICK. First published in 1929 and republished by mainstream publishers by the thousands in numerous editions in America, the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. Crowley's book covers a vast range of perfectly legal magical operations but also contains one section on 'The Bloody Sacrifice' which Satan Hunters love to quote from and which was also read out to the jury in this case.

If mere possession of a book containing occult material was evidence of having committed a crime hundreds of thousands of innocent people would have to be prosecuted. But such lack of intellectual rigour is commonplace amongst Satan hunters; Dennis Wheatley sold occult fiction to hundreds of thousands of ordinary folks and possession of one of his novels was all the excuse the Social workers needed to pull in a completely innocent parent in the Orkney fiasco! Did this blind prejudice occur in the Neave Case? Yes, we believe it did and will explain how.

If Neave was influenced by Crowley's Magick why did she ignore its requirements and do things differently?

The prosecution must have known that the Crowley link wasn't going to wash   - particularly as the requirements in MAGICK for arranging a sacrifice did   NOT specify a 'sacrificial position' of any kind.   If Neave was influenced by   Crowley's MAGICK (as the prosecution appeared to want the jury to accept)   why would she ignore all of its requirements and do things entirely differently?   The prosecution had a problem. If the jury looked into MAGICK in too   much detail it would actually contradict the prosecution's sacrificial position   theory!

No, the entire case for the motive of the prosecution was based on the single   link of this 'Occult Magazine' and its Vitruvian Man illustration.

Vitruvian Man! Sounds a bit strange and weird doesn't it? Just the type of   thing that might convince a Jury that something bizarre was afoot. In fact   'The Vitruvian Man' is nothing more than a classical proportional drawing by   Leonardo Da Vinci. It is called Vitruvian Man after the Roman architectural   theoretician Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, commonly known as 'Vitruvius' who had   absolutely no connection whatsoever with any form of occultism but who is   famous amongst artists and architects as the writer of seminal source works   on the PROPORTION and DESIGN of BUILDINGS. Da Vinci's 'Vitruvian Man'   is simply a perfect illustration of the human form and how it fits proportionally within a circle. But wait, Da Vinci drew TWO male forms in the same circle. The prosecution arbitrarily chose to see only the one which was most   similar to the position of poor Rikki's body, ignoring the other image which wasn't.

THE VITRUVIAN MAN DRAWING HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH   BLACK MAGIC OR SACRIFICE but it does appear frequently in books of art   and architecture. It is also used to front the titles to the World in Action   TV series and is known to millions by sight, although unidentifiable to most   by name. Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man drawing has even been beamed into space   by Dr Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Sagan chose the drawing for his S.E.T.I project because it is the most perfect illustration of Human Anatomy and therefore would give any extra terrestrials who received the picture a   proper understanding of what humans are like whilst bypassing any language   difficulties.    Let us hope that extra-terrestrials who receive Sagan's message have a tad more discernment than the Office of Public Prosecutions.

So Vitruvian Man has nothing whatsoever to do with any kind of cult, occult, ritual, mystical, religious rite or any form of sacrifice. Surely those involved   in bringing the Ruth Neave murder case were educated people who might be   expected to know about Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man? Surely one of   their number would have been sent out to check on it? But wait, there was no need for that, the 'occult   magazine' in which the illustration was found, actually explained   what Vitruvian Man really was! Why anyone seeing this in that magazine   would think it proof of a link to Black Magic Sacrifice is beyond me, for   the innocuous information about the architect Marcus Vitruvius is printed   alongside the drawing!   They must have read that text. How else would they   get to know that it was called Vitruvian Man? The implications are immense.

We Explain The Unexplained

The front cover of issue 1 of The Unexplained.

Additionally although described in court as an 'occult magazine' the publication in question was not. It was a mass market part-work titled 'THE UNEXPLAINED' which had been advertised heavily on TV and sold by virtually   every newsagent and book stall in the country when first published in 1984.   Tens of thousands of them will be in circulation. First produced by Orbis in   over 20 separate volumes, each sold at £1.95 per copy they were issued one a   fortnight.   THE UNEXPLAINED was later republished in various bound editions and has latterly appeared in large quantities in discount book stores   throughout the U.K. Dealing with all manner of unexplained mysteries, it is   not an 'occult' magazine, as the jury was told, but is in fact a pictorial   encyclopaedia which anyone interested in UFO's, X Files, The Bermuda Triangle and other anomalous phenomena might want to buy and read.

In fact the illustration of Vitruvian Man was just one out of an average of 270 illustrations per issue, many of which were much more prominent.   In the SAFF Research Library's copy of THE UNEXPLAINED, the text which accompanies the Vitruvian Man drawing has no mention of Black Magick, Crowley,   Satanism, Witchcraft or anything else which was identified with it in during   the trial. In fact we have been not been able to find ANY such link in any   occult books in the Research Library or elsewhere. So where did the prosecution get it from?

In THE UNEXPLAINED the drawing and article comes under   the section on SACRED GEOMETRY and beside the subheading 'HARMONIOUS   MAN'. A completely different and innocuous perspective to that presented by the prosecution during the trial. So exactly where is this evidence which so certainly links the Vitruvian Man drawing to Sacrifice and why was the drawing used in this way if, as we suspect, there is no real evidence at all?

One can be forgiven for thinking that this was simply wild speculation fostered by yet another clutch of Satan Hunters in the local social services   department, because that's exactly what it was.   Prejudiced people who have   been weaned on the same outrageous bigotry fostered by 'experts' at Satanic   Ritual Abuse Seminars which are STILL occurring despite the Orkney Inquiry.   Witch hunters who will stop at nothing in their rush to ignore the   facts and ferret out purposefully misconstrued information to pursue their   dangerous prejudices.

If any further examples were needed, the Satanic Ritual Abuse myth can now   be seen for what it really is. As much a licence for crusading social workers   to exceed their legal parameters as the best excuse possible to divert blame   for not actually doing their job properly in the first place. For all Ruth Neave's shortcomings, she has been a product of the Social Services system   since birth. The social services have constantly overseen and interfered with   her own welfare and that of her family. Under the microscope of Social   Services for most of her life they still failed Neave and her son when shove   came to push. They tracked her all her life - they KNEW what she was. What she WAS NOT was a Satanic Priestess.

Found Out or Fitted up?

The Ruth Neave case broadcasts a serious warning that despite continuous self-advertisement, Social Work isn't working. So what do they do about it? Revert to demonising someone they should have helped and sidestep their responsibility by misdirecting the public's attention away from their own blunders and on to some mythical Satanic Conspiracy. That's how. Result: nothing changes and the social work system continues to abuse its clients. This case testifies not about evil in occultism, but rather the inadequacies and evil inherent in the Social Services system where a misfit mum appeals for aide from the statutory body charged with helping them, is virtually ignored and then victimised for being unable to cope when things go wrong.

LET'S REVIEW THE FACTS:

The Vitruvian Man Drawing has nothing whatsoever to do with Sacrifice or Black Magick

There is no pentagram shape in the Vitruvian Man Drawing, see for yourself above.

There is a choice of TWO positions actually in the drawing, one of which was nothing like how Rikki's body was found so the prosecution just ignored it in favour of the one which confirmed their prejudices.

The Social Services was watching Neave continually, they knew she wasn't a High Priestess of any Cult.

The magazine/book offered as proof that the Vitruvian Man was a sacrificial position actually explained that it wasn't!

The book which the prosecution inferred had influenced Neave towards sacrifice actually contained information which contradicted their claims about sacrificial positions.

The government will have to act when the next batch of innocents are abducted by the Social Work Inquisition but if the Office of Public Prosecutions is going to pander to the new Witch Finder Generals on the basis of such weak evidence as that which put Ruth Neave into the dock for murder, no one is safe. All it needs is a wicked neighbour with an axe to grind and the Social Services Storm troopers will be in your private corners in an instant; unearthing 'evidence' of some kind to pacify their manic obsessions about Satanic Ritual Abuse? Nothing you say then will make any difference.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Information recovered from The extensive Sub-Culture Alternatives Freedom Foundation Research Library. A library set up by visionary people many of whom donated books and literature so that a body of genuine research information can be made available to inquirers to inject sanity into situations just such as this.

The Vitruvian Man and The Ritual Sacrifrice Case That Never Was.