Moment ex-Commando scales fence to stab neighbours to death before calling 999 to say ‘I went round with a knife’

THIS is the sickening moment an ex-Commando scales a fence to stab his neighbours to death in a row over parking – before calling the cops to tell them what he has done.

The footage was played to jurors in the trial of Collin Reeves of the seconds before he killed Jennifer, 33, and Stephen Chapple, 36, on November 21 last year.

In the chilling clip Reeves, 35, scales a garden fence before breaking and entering into the couples home in Dragon Rise, Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset.

Bristol Crown Court heard how Reeves stabbed the couple to death with a ceremonial dagger given to him when he left the army.

The couple’s children, five and six, were asleep upstairs during the entire horror saga.

Jurors also heard a recording of the ex-soldier detailing the stabbings to a 999 operator minutes after killing the married couple.

The operator at one point mistook Reeves for the injured party, asking him whether he was harmed before he told her: “I went round with a knife, I’ve stabbed both of them.”

Asked whether the couple were awake when he left, he replied: “No, I think they were sort of drifting.

“He was lying on the floor, she was lying on the sofa.”

The sickening clip is one of three separate clashes captured on the Chapples’ doorbell cam and played in court earlier, with Reeves seen confronting Mrs Chapple over a space outside their home.

During one run-in on May 15, Reeves approaches Mrs Chapple in her car and tells her “you can’t park here” as she positions herself near a gravelled area outside his home.

“You don’t own the road,” Mrs Chapple tells him, before he moves around to the front of the vehicle and continues confronting her.

The seemingly innocuous clash sparked a long-running dispute that ended six months later with Reeves grabbing a ceremonial dagger he was given on leaving the army.

During the second incident, which happened just 10 days before the killings, Reeves could be heard calling Mrs Chapple a “f****** c***” and “you fat bitch”.

Mrs Chapple appears to look at him and say: “You’re the one who started it… so f*** off” before entering her home and slamming the front door.

Reeves is currently on trial charged with the double murder. He has previously admitted manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility but this was rejected by the crown.

The footage was released by Avon and Somerset Police after being shown to the jury during the on-going trial.

When officers arrived at the scene, the couple’s children were still asleep upstairs.

‘CLOSED BOOK’

His mother, Lynn Reeves, said that her son is a “closed book” who “never shares his emotions” in a filmed police interview played earlier to jurors.

He served in the Army between 2002 and 2017, including in Afghanistan, but never spoke about what he saw there, she said.

It was claimed that Reeves appeared to have been struggling with his mental health since he returned from Afghanistan.

Lynn Reeves wept as she attended court in person to give live evidence on Friday, detailing how she found Reeves “white as a ghost” on the night he killed his neighbours.

She said she had been phoned by an “hysterical” Kayley Reeves saying “they’re dead”.

“He was white as a ghost, he was just white and he just didn’t look like Collin. He was just standing, he just looked right through us as if he wasn’t there and said ‘I had to protect my family’,” she said.