Married Police Officer Jailed For 10 Years After Killing Lover Who Told His Wife Of An Affair

A married police officer who was acquitted of murdering his long-term lover after she revealed her affair to his wife was jailed for 10 years and six months for involuntary manslaughter.

It took a jury just under three hours to find “man whore” Timothy Brehmer, 41, not guilty of the murder of Claire Parry, a mother of two.

Brehmer, who served in the Dorset police, had previously admitted to the murder of the married nurse with whom he had been having an affair for more than 10 years.

Today Brehmer has been jailed for 10 years and six months by a Salisbury Crown Court judge.

“This is a case where I should sentence you on the basis that you lost control of yourself after sending the text message to your wife revealing the affair, rather than on the basis that you had no intention of killing or actually cause serious harm, “the judge said.

I’m sure you deliberately grabbed Claire Parry by the neck applying significant force with your forearm or elbow over a period of time while she was fighting you, thus causing the severe neck injuries the pathologist described.

“The evidence from the pathologist was that the injuries he described as ‘severe’ on a scale of mild, moderate or severe were the result of applying significant force to the neck for a minimum period of 10 to 30 seconds and possibly longer.

“He said it was difficult to imagine a situation where a fight in the car would impart the necessary degree of force or could explain the extent and severity of the neck injuries.”

The judge said Brehmer would serve two-thirds of his prison sentence before he could apply for parole.

Ms. Parry was killed during a “riot” in her car in a parking lot at the Horns Inn in West Parley, Dorset, on May 9.

The court heard that while the couple were in the car, Ms. Parry picked up Brehmer’s phone and sent a message to his wife saying, “I am cheating on you.”

In sentencing Brehmer, Judge Jacobs said: “You were a trained and experienced police officer and your character witnesses described how you would help others.

“However, he did nothing to try to help Claire Parry. He didn’t ask her how she was doing. That was because she knew how she was.

“You couldn’t think, like you said in your interview with the police, that she was just breathing.

“You must have known that his body had weakened after the assault you suffered. Before you walked to the parking lot entrance, you must have seen how he was, hanging half out of the car.

“It must have been obvious to you, as a trained police officer with extensive experience dealing with traffic accident victims, that you were not breathing.

“As proof, you said you didn’t realize she was wrong. I think you appreciated that she was much worse than that.”

Brehmer claimed that she accidentally sustained the fatal injury while he was trying to get her out of the vehicle so he could drive away.

He told the court that he had planned to go and commit suicide due to the consequences to his family of his affair being revealed.

The trial heard that in the days leading up to her death, Ms Parry had begun to believe that her marriage to Andrew Parry, also a Dorset police officer, was ending, as well as her relationship with the defendant.

She had conducted research using a Facebook alias on Brehmer and became convinced that he had had at least two other affairs.

Brehmer told the jury that Ms Parry, 41, was angry and “uncontrolled jealousy” because she had found out about his previous relationship.

“I couldn’t face rejection from my family, I felt like I had no one to talk to,” he said.

Brehmer said that when Ms. Parry entered the parking lot she was angry and, after getting into her vehicle, asked her for her phone so she could view her social media apps.

“I was taking off the Mickey, I was angry, I was being sarcastic, nasty,” she said.

“I was so angry I don’t know if I was jealous of my ‘perfect life’, as she called it.”

He said he demanded she get out of his car, but she refused, so he first tried to get her out before “getting” in the car to try to get her out, and her arm “must have slipped in all the riot.” .

When asked by his attorney, Jo Martin QC, if he had planned to kill Ms. Parry, he replied, “Absolutely not.

“I didn’t mean to hurt her in any way.”

Under questioning of defendant Richard Smith QC, Brehmer initially denied being a “well-practiced liar” but later accepted the term after admitting that he lied “consistently well” to his wife on the matter.

When asked if he described himself as a “devious bastard,” Brehmer replied, “This is how I consider myself now.”

Mrs Parry, from Bournemouth, was transferred to Royal Bournemouth Hospital but died the next day.

A post-mortem examination concluded that the cause of death was a brain injury caused by compression of the neck.

At the time of the incident, Brehmer was assigned to the National Police Air Service based at Bournemouth Airport.

Brehmer, of Hordle, Hampshire, had denied the murder, but admitted the murder.