A former soldier has been convicted of murder for stabbing his neighbours to death in a row over parking. Collin Reeves, 35, was on trial at Bristol Crown Court for the murders of Jennifer Chapple and Stephen Chapple on November 21 last year while their children were asleep upstairs.
Reeves and his family were neighbours to the Chapples in Dragon Rise, Norton Fitzwarren, outside Taunton in Somerset, and had been in a dispute over parking since the previous May. The defendant denied murder, claiming the offence was one of manslaughter with diminished responsibility due to his diagnosis of depression.
Today (Friday, June 17), a jury convicted him on two counts of murder after five hours and 21 minutes of deliberations. Reeves did not react as the verdicts were read out.
