The jury has retired to consider its verdict in the case of a former soldier on trial for murder for stabbing his neighbours to death in a row over parking.

Collin Reeves, 35, is on trial at Bristol Crown Court for the murders of Jennifer Chapple and Stephen Chapple on November 21 last year while their children were asleep upstairs.

Reeves and his family were neighbours to the Chapples in Dragon Rise, Norton Fitzwarren, outside Taunton in Somerset.

The two families had been involved in a dispute over parking since May 2021.

Reeves denied murder, claiming the offence was one of manslaughter with diminished responsibility due to his diagnosis of depression.

UPDATE: The jurors have been sent home for the day and will resume deliberations at 10am on Friday.