‘Colonel Con’ will claim his wife was sick

A senior British Army officer accused of fleecing the taxpayer to fund his children’s private education will insist he had a right to the money because his wife was sick, a court heard. Marcus Reedman, 52, was a lieutenant colonel based at the Ministry of Defence building in  Whitehall at the time of the fraud allegation between October 2016 and August 2017. His two eldest children attended Marlborough House School in Hawkhurst, Kent, and Brighton College in East Sussex, both…