How parking row in Somerset village ended in couple’s brutal murder

Former soldier Collin Reeves, who cruelly killed his neighbours, told a psychiatrist life felt dark all the time'

On the night of 21 November last year, Collin Reeves sat down on the stairs of his home in the Somerset village of Norton Fitzwarren and broke down in tears.

He was in a terrible place. Since leaving the army four years before, Reeves had flitted between unsatisfying jobs, missing the structure and sense of purpose he had found in the military and dwelling on the horrors he had seen in Afghanistan.