Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Don’t let the ugly in others kill the beauty in you...
- Tragic mum to pals. Weeks after this row was caught on video she was dead...
DOORBELL film shows tragic Jennifer Chapple in a verbal bust-up outside her house just weeks before she was stabbed to death.
The grainy footage, which she sent to a friend, shows her being confronted by a man, who shouts: “F***ing gobbing off.”
He unleashes a tirade of expletives before she goes into the house and he walks away, still swearing.
On Facebook in February, Jennifer, described yesterday as a “lovely, kindhearted lady”, said: “Don’t let the ugly in others kill the beauty in you.”
Jennifer and her husband Stephen were found dead in their home in Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset, on Sunday evening. Their children, boys aged six and five, were unharmed but “distressed” inside.
Police, who
Everyone has an issue with parking round here
RESIDENT IN DRAGON RISE ESTATE said the children had been asleep at the time of the attack, confirmed Jennifer had died from stab wounds, while postmortem examinations were still being carried out on her husband.
Dad-of-two Collin Reeves, 34, a former Commando Royal Engineer who was arrested on suspicion of murder on Sunday, was being questioned last night after magistrates granted an extension to the custody time limit.
A man of 67 was also arrested on Sunday but released under investigation. Avon and Somerset Police said the incident, on the Dragon Rise estate, would be referred to the policing watchdog due to “prior police contact with those involved”. Chief Inspector Justin French confirmed: “There have been previous incidents. There have been callouts in the past.” Neighbours said officers had been called over parking disputes. One resident said: “Police have been out there on at least three occasions because of the parking. It’s utterly ridiculous.”
Drone images appeared to show two cars parked bumper to bumper in the Chapples’ space.
Another resident, Melissa, said: “Everyone has an issue with parking around here. Some people have multiple cars that there isn’t space for, and it has caused a lot of upset.”
Flowers laid at the scene for the couple paid tribute to “genuinely lovely people”. A resident named Barbara, 40, said: “Whenever I saw Jennifer she was ever so friendly and was always smiling.
“They will both be dearly missed.”
Jennifer worked at the Otter Garden Centre at Pen Elm, near Taunton. Manager Rob Brooks said: “She was a wellloved and respected member of the team, a lovely, kind-hearted lady and a devoted mother.
“It’s still raw at the moment for all the staff. Our hearts go out to those children that are left behind.”
Stephen was an IT teacher at West Somerset College. Headteacher Gregg Mockridge said: “Steve was a fantastic colleague, a brilliant teacher who cared deeply about the students in his care.”