Married PC who killed his lover ‘was a serial love rat’
His ‘999 worker conquests called him Mr Smooth’
A MARRIED policeman accused of strangling his mistress had a string of lovers in the emergency services and treated women like ‘pieces of meat’, jury was told yesterday.
PC Timothy Brehmer, 41, was known as ‘Mr Smooth’ and called a ‘professional in grooming women’ by former lovers, it was claimed.
He is accused of murdering nurse Claire Parry in a pub car park after she threatened to tell his detective wife about their ten-year affair and texted her from his phone to say he had been cheating.
Detective Constable Kate Rhodes, of Dorset Police, tearfully told Salisbury Crown Court she met Brehmer in 2011 and they began a relationship. She said she quickly fell in love with Brehmer until she realised he was ‘a groomer who has a tool kit he uses on every woman he encounters’.
She added: ‘The first thing that struck me was how professional he was with his dealings with the public. He was charming and very personable and charismatic. I quickly fell in love with Tim.
‘I found out from a conversation in the office that Tim was married to a detective. I was really upset – I thought we had a relationship that was about to start and I was looking forward to it. I broke it off, but it was difficult.’ She said years later Brehmer made her ‘feel like a piece of meat’ by texting while she was on holiday with her husband, calling her a ‘dirty bitch’ and suggesting they meet for sex.
Before her death, Mrs Parry, who was also married to a police officer, had contacted Det Con Rhodes on Facebook using a fake account. The detective said: ‘It was cathartic hearing about his trademark ways and realising I was not his only victim.’
The pair established that Canadian-born Brehmer, an officer with the National Police Air Service and father to a nine-year-old son, was likely to have had more lovers in the emergency services, including another policewoman.
The jury heard that Mrs Parry said she intended to ruin his life by confessing to his wife Martha, referring him to the police watchdog and reporting him to the taxman for failing to declare income he made from gardening jobs.
In her messages to Det Con Rhodes, mother-of-two Mrs Parry wrote ‘Hell hath no fury’ and said she was ‘embarking on a long and slow downfall of Mr “man-whore” Brehmer.’ Mrs Parry’s husband Andrew told the court he started tracking his wife when he found evidence of an affair.
He hid their daughter’s mobile phone in her car and traced her using an app. He had found an email she had sent to Brehmer in which she said she would never love someone as much as him and discovered a man’s rugby shirt under the couple’s marital bed.
He also happened upon a Valentine’s card hidden in their bedroom addressed to ‘Curly Toes,’ which he said must have been his wife because she ‘did have especially curly toes.’
The couple had counselling sesa
‘Treated women like pieces of meat’
sions but Mr Parry said he had accepted the marriage was over.
He last spoke to her minutes before her death in May this year when she phoned but he was ‘short with her’ as he was busy. The court previously heard Brehmer strangled Mrs Parry outside a pub in West Parley, Dorset, so forcefully that a bone in her neck broke.
Brehmer, of Hordle, Hampshire, admits manslaughter but denies murder. He told police he accidentally asphyxiated Mrs Parry while trying to drag her from his car. The trial continues.