A former soldier has been found guilty of murdering two neighbours in a violent knife attack as their children slept upstairs.
Collin Reeves, 35, killed Stephen and Jennifer Chapple with a ceremonial military dagger at their home in Somerset following a long-running row over parking.
Reeves, who served in Afghanistan, told the court he could not remember the deadly assault and denied murder.
He had earlier pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility following a diagnosis of depression.
Reeves stabbed Mrs Chapple six times in the chest and shoulder, fatally injuring a major blood vessel and her heart, prosecutors told Bristol Crown Court.
He stabbed her husband six times.
In the moments before the attack in Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, Reeves jumped over a fence to gain access to the house.
The court was shown a clip from the couple’s back-door camera of Reeves coming into the house before Mrs Chapple screams in terror and he shouts “die you f****** die”.
