What’s my mum going to say..?
Married PC accused of breaking lover’s neck ‘turned hysterical after paramedics arrived at crime scene’
A POLICEMAN accused of killing his lover sobbed hysterically after the alleged murder and asked paramedics ‘What’s my mother going to say?’ a court heard yesterday.
PC Timothy Brehmer, 41, also said to the ambulance team that he feared he would lose contact with his son.
Body camera footage taken from inside an ambulance showed Brehmer telling paramedics and police officers: ‘I have lost my boy.’
A paramedic said to him: ‘Your boy still wants you, doesn’t he?’
Brehmer replied: ‘Not any more he won’t.’ He then repeats: ‘My boy, my boy, my boy.’
He is accused of strangling nurse Claire Parry in a pub car park after she threatened to tell his detective wife about their ten-year affair.
Other body camera footage from paramedics showed Brehmer in the car park, shirtless and covered in blood from wounds caused by a four-inch Swiss Army knife he kept in his car. Brehmer claimed the cuts were inflicted by Mrs Parry, before then telling medics he did them himself.
Weeping hysterically, he told emergency workers: ‘ I have been having an affair with her for years. She asked me to meet her here and she was going to tell my wife. She was going through my phone.’
The court was told Brehmer repeatedly told paramedics that Mrs Parry was ‘so, so angry’.
He also told paramedics: ‘I’ve ****ed up,’ and added: ‘God, she’s got kids’. Salisbury Crown Court heard that Brehmer’s wife, Martha, had received a text from his phone which said: ‘I’m cheating on you.’
More footage of Brehmer, who married in 2006 and has a son of nine, shows him in hospital telling police: ‘I’m a good man, an honest man. I’m just... I’m broken. It’s all my fault.’
An ambulance was called in by a passer-by who saw Brehmer sat by the car park entrance covered in blood. Paramedic James Best told the court said he was called over by another passer-by to Mrs Parry, who was slumped half out of Brehmer’s Citroen C1.
‘Her head was on the ground but her body was more in the car, her feet were in the driver’s footwell. It looked almost as if someone had fallen asleep leaning on the door and it had then been opened,’ he said.
‘She had blue lips and it was obvious to me she was not breathing. I checked her for a pulse. She did not have one.’
His colleague Thomas Hull, who carried out chest compressions on Mrs Parry, said he saw a red mark across her throat.
He said: ‘A few times we managed to get her back, it [her pulse] was very slow and it was very weak. We got her pulse back enough to consider moving her so we got her into the ambulance.’
PC Martin Brown of Dorset police, who responded to the incident, told of the moment he realised that it involved his colleague Brehmer.
He said: ‘I said “are you OK Tim? What’s happened?” and he looked at me and said “I can’t remember” and began to cry hysterically.’
Mrs Parry, 41, a mother-of-two whose husband was also a police officer, was taken to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital where she died the next day.
A post-mortem examination concluded the cause of death was a brain injury caused by compression of the neck, and a bone in her neck had broken.
Brehmer, of Hordle, Hampshire, who at the time of the incident was seconded to the National Police Air Service at Bournemouth airport, denies murder but has admitted manslaughter.
He told police he accidentally asphyxiated Mrs Parry at West Parley, Dorset, on May 9, while trying to drag her from his car. The trial continues.
‘She did not have a pulse’