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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Adam Aspinall & Dan Warburton

Ex-soldier 'with PTSD' who killed couple in parking row never saw active service

An ex-commando who claimed he knifed his neighbours to death because their security light “triggered” warzone flashbacks was “never exposed to frontline action”, the investigating officer has revealed.

Collin Reeves, 34, is facing an automatic life sentence after a jury found him guilty of murdering Jennifer and Stephen Chapple with a ceremonial dagger in November last year [2021].

Reeves claimed he killed Jennifer and Stephen Chapple because their security light "triggered" warzone flashbacks.

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