Colin Reeves, 35, killed Steven and Jennifer Chapel at their Somerset home on Nov. 21 while their two young sons slept upstairs. He confessed to the murders in a call 999 minutes later. The former Royal Engineer admitted the murder due to negligence, but denied the murder, claiming that he believed he was in a war zone and that he was suffering from a “mental dysfunction”. Reeves was spotted by a security camera climbing Stephen and Jennifer Chapple’s garden before entering their back door APEX NEWS His defense of reduced liability was unanimously rejected by the jury on Friday, after two of the three medical examiners called said he was suffering from depression and not post-traumatic stress disorder.
