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A MARRIED police officer has been found innocent of the murder of his longtime lover.
Killer Timothy Brehmer, 41, of Hordle, New Forest, was charged with strangling nurse Claire Parry to death in the parking lot of the Horns Inn pub in West Parley on May 9.
Brehmer, a Dorset police officer, admitted to causing the death of Ms. Parry but denied the murder.
After two hours and 50 minutes of deliberation, a jury of 11 people unanimously found him not guilty after a trial in the Salisbury Crown Court.
Brehmer will be sentenced for manslaughter at 2.30pm this afternoon.
We will be blogging the sentence live.
The court heard how the couple met in 2005 through work and began an “intermittent relationship” a few years later.
Brehmer told the court that the matter was “compartmentalized” by their marriages and that they would not speak when life’s great events occurred.
However, the police officer said things “went crazy” when Ms. Parry’s marriage broke up as a result of the affair, prompting them to meet at the Horns Inn on May 9.
After failing to get her out of the car so that he could commit suicide, Brehmer “huddled” to get her out.
Ms. Parry died of a brain injury due to neck compression after the car fight.
Brehmer said his arm was around his chest and “must have slipped in the melee.”
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