Colonel accused of conning school fees insists he did nothing wrong

A senior British Army officer denied fleecing the taxpayer to fund his children’s private education as he told jurors about the pressures of military life on his family. 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 fee-paying independent schools. He was…