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This is the moment when a bloodied, married policeman accused of strangling his lover cries for a police officer after killing her outside a pub.
Officer Martin Brown described in court today how PC Timothy Brehmer burst into tears as paramedics fought to save nurse Claire Parry’s life.
He said, “I looked at Tim and asked him what happened and he said, ‘I can’t remember,’ before crying hysterically.”
The jury was shown bodycam footage showing Brehmer sitting in shorts with a T-shirt and with visible blood on his body.
He is seen sobbing and when asked what had happened, he says: “I have had an affair for years, she was going to tell my wife, I am afraid of losing my son, so I met her here.
“She told my wife, I don’t remember the rest.”
Parry suffered fatal injuries after meeting Brehmer in a Dorset pub parking lot on May 9.
The Salisbury Crown Court has heard that the 41-year-old defendant is charged with strangling her after she sent a message to his wife revealing their affair, which had lasted more than 10 years.
Paramedics told the court they were called to the Horns Inn on Christchurch Road, West Parley, the defendant who had suffered stab wounds with a penknife to the arm.
James Best, who was first on the scene, said he saw Brehmer, but a man called out to Ms. Parry, who was half lying outside the defendant’s Citroen car.
He said: “When I got closer, I saw a woman lying half inside, half outside the Citroën.
“His head was on the ground but his body was more in the car, his feet were in the driver’s footwell. It seemed almost as if someone had fallen asleep leaning against the door and then it had been opened.
“He had fallen half out of the car with his face on the ground.
“Her lips were blue and it was obvious to me she wasn’t breathing. I checked her pulse. She wasn’t.”
He said his colleagues performed chest compressions, adding that he recognized Ms Parry when he found her NHS ID card.
“I know Claire through work because we used to socialize, but that was a long time ago.
“Knowing that other people at Royal Bournemouth Hospital would know her, I contacted the ambulance liaison so they could put the plans in motion.”
Colleague Thomas Hull said he saw a red band mark on Ms. Parry’s throat and said she performed chest compressions.
He said, “A few times we managed to get her back, (her pulse) was very slow and very weak.
“We got her pulse back enough to consider moving her, so we put her in the ambulance.”
Mrs Parry, 41, was taken to Royal Bournemouth where she died the next day.
A post-mortem examination concluded that the cause of death was a brain injury caused by compression of the neck.
Jurors were shown the car Wednesday after it was taken to the courthouse parking lot for viewing.
Brehmer, of Hordle, Hampshire, who at the time of the incident was attached to the National Police Air Service based at Bournemouth Airport, denies the murder but has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
The trial continues.
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