Retired colonel must wait a year for fraud trial

A retired colonel, who was deputy director of the Government’s Covid-19 task force, must wait a year before he stands trial for fraud. Marcus Reedman, 50, is charged with falsely claiming more than £43,000 in allowances to pay school fees. He was serving as a Lieutenant Colonel at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) building, in Whitehall, at the time of the alleged offence between October 2016 and May 2017. Reedman, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent, faces one charge of fraud relating…