PC ‘ broke lover’s neck’
She ‘made threats to tell his wife about affair’
A MARRIED policeman strangled his lover after she threatened to tell his wife about their ten-year affair, a court heard yesterday.
Timothy Brehmer, 41, allegedly throttled nurse Claire Parry, 41, with such force that a bone in her neck broke.
They had rowed in a pub car park after she recently discovered he had been sleeping with two other women, jurors heard.
An unsent message addressed to Brehmer’s wife Martha was later found on Mrs Parry’s phone in which she revealed the affair and described him as a ‘man-whore’.
Richard Smith QC, prosecuting, said the constable, who worked with the National Police Air Service in Bournemouth, asphyxiated her with the crook of his forearm ‘as the calamity was upon him’.
Mrs Parry believed her relationship with husband Andrew was coming to an end and thought she had a future with Brehmer.
But she had begun speaking via Facebook with an ex-lover of the PC and found out about other women, the court heard. The note on her phone addressed to Mrs Brehmer, a police detective, said: ‘Dear Martha, what I’m about to tell you may not come as much of a surprise. Put simply, your husband is a man-whore.
‘Myself and others have fallen victim to his charms. He sucked me in years ago and made me believe he and I had a future.
‘I’m not the only one he has weaved these stories to, there are at least two more.’
Before the lovers met in the pub car park in West Parley, Dorset, in May, Brehmer had ordered rope but had been unable to pick it up,
Salisbury Crown Court heard. Mr Smith QC said the rope’s purpose had been to convince Mrs Parry to keep the affair a secret or he would take his own life.
The pair argued in Brehmer’s Citroen before CCTV shows him walking towards passers-by with knife wounds on his arms. The dad-of-one told them: ‘I’m going to prison for a very long time.’
Brehmer claimed the cuts were inflicted by Mrs Parry, before telling medics he did them himself.
Mother- of-two Mrs Parry, from Bournemouth, was taken to hospital but died the following day.
A pathologist report showed a broken bone and cartilage in her neck and severe jaw bruising consistent with strangulation.
Brehmer, of Hordle, Hampshire, admits manslaughter but denies murder. He told police he accidentally asphyxiated her while trying to grapple her from his car. The trial continues.