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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rod Minchin

Coroner warns of danger of Army ceremonial daggers after double murder

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The Army has been urged by a coroner to stop giving out weapons as retirement gifts after an Afghanistan veteran used a ceremonial dagger to murder his neighbours.

Collin Reeves stabbed Stephen Chapple, 36, and his wife Jennifer Chapple, 33, at their home near Taunton, Somerset, in November 2021 after a long-running parking dispute.

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