Lieutenant Colonel ‘got the MoD to pay kid’s school fees’

A senior British Army officer ‘cheated the system’ by claiming thousands of pounds in allowances for his children’s private education, a court heard. Marcus Reedman, 52, was a lieutenant colonel at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) building in Whitehall at the time of the allegation, between October 2016 and August 2017. His two children attended Marlborough House School in Hawkhurst, Kent, and Brighton College in East Sussex, both fee-paying independent schools with annual fees of £30,000 and £18,000. Prosecutor James…