Dorset Police officer T. Brehmer cleared of murdering his lover

[arista]

This was May 2020


[A married police officer has been acquitted of
murdering his long-term lover after
she revealed their affair to his wife.
A jury took two hours and 50 minutes to find
Timothy Brehmer, 41,
not guilty of murdering mother-of-two Claire Parry.
Brehmer had previously admitted the
manslaughter of the married nurse who he
had been having an affair with for more than 10 years.
The police officer, who served with Dorset Police,
will be sentenced at Salisbury Crown Court
by Mr Justice Jacobs later on Tuesday.
Mrs Parry died during a "kerfuffle" in his
car at a car park of the Horns Inn in
West Parley, Dorset, on May 9 this year.]


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https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-27/police-officer-cleared-of-murdering-lover-but-faces-jail-for-manslaughter

[Niamh.]

"Brehmer said he strangled her by accident during a "kerfuffle" in his car."

How do you accidentally strangle someone?

[Cherie]

:umm2: strange verdict

[Kizzy]

Wow... how does this happen? Just when you thought it was American officers that were above the law.

[Tom4784]

I wonder if he would have been acquitted if he wasn't a police officer....

[arista]

"Brehmer said he strangled her by accident during a "kerfuffle" in his car."

How do you accidentally strangle someone?


Maybe it was a Sex Act?


[He sobbed as he told jurors: 'I'm responsible for her death.
I must have [used too much force]. I absolutely did not want
to kill her or cause serious bodily harm. I didn't intend to kill her.' ]

[arista]

:umm2: strange verdict


He will get Manslaughter charge now


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8884251/Police-officer-41-not-guilty-murdering-wife.html

[arista]

I wonder if he would have been acquitted if he wasn't a police officer....


Maybe not

[Niamh.]

Maybe it was a Sex Act?


[He sobbed as he told jurors: 'I'm responsible for her death.
I must have [used too much force]. I absolutely did not want
to kill her or cause serious bodily harm. I didn't intend to kill her.' ]

No it wasn't :

The court heard that while the pair were in the car, Mrs Parry had taken the Brehmer’s phone and sent a message to his wife saying: “I am cheating on you.”

Minutes later Mrs Parry suffered fatal injuries at Brehmer’s hands - the 41-year-old is strangled the mother of two after she sent a text message on the defendant’s phone to his wife revealing the affair.

Mrs Parry, a nurse and mother of two who was also married to a police officer, had become enraged with Brehmer after she found out he was in a relationship with fellow police officer Kate Rhodes at the same time he was seeing her.

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

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-27/police-officer-cleared-of-murdering-lover-but-faces-jail-for-manslaughter

[arista]

Well Really it should be Murder
but as Dezzy stated he is a Copper
slight protected etc.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I guess they failed to prove that it was a premeditated murder (which i dont think it was) and so manslaughter it is.

[Denver]

I guess they failed to prove that it was a premeditated murder (which i dont think it was) and so manslaughter it is.

Not all murder has to be premeditated and premeditated murder can happen in the minutes leading up to it so this post makes no sense

[Crimson Dynamo]

Not all murder has to be premeditated and premeditated murder can happen in the minutes leading up to it so this post makes no sense

well whatever the prosecution could not prove that this occurred beyond reasonable doubt

[bots]

it really only matters what prison sentence he gets. If he gets off with 6 months community service then he must have some dirt on someone

[Josy]

Murderer

[Ammi]

...his sentencing will be tomorrow morning and his barrister has asked that the 168 days he’s already spent in custody be deducted from the sentence...it’ll be interesting to see how long will be spent in prison for taking a woman’s life...

[thesheriff443]

Without hearing and seeing all the evidence you can’t really give an informed opinion.

[Niamh.]

Without hearing and seeing all the evidence you can’t really give an informed opinion.His defence was while trying to push her out of the car, he accidentally strangled her........seems legit [emoji106]

[Ammi]

...I don’t know if it’s been posted already but this shows a vid of him just after he was arrested...


https://news.sky.com/story/timothy-brehmer-married-dorset-police-officer-cleared-of-murdering-lover-but-faces-jail-for-manslaughter-12115956

[bots]

it does sound very dodgy

[Crimson Dynamo]

Problem is you can't prove murder despite how it sounds

[thesheriff443]

His defence was while trying to push her out of the car, he accidentally strangled her........seems legit [emoji106]

The jury was made up of normal men and women who after seeing and hearing the evidence came to their verdict.

[Josy]

Wouldnt this have been classed as second degree murder in other countries?

Yet because of our criminal system yet again the jury has to choose between either manslaughter or premeditated murder...

He obviously wanted to kill her by strangling her in anger after finding out she revealed the affair so yes he murdered her IMO

[Ammi]

A police officer raised in North Hampshire who strangled his lover after she revealed their affair to his wife has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years imprisonment...

[Josy]

A police officer raised in North Hampshire who strangled his lover after she revealed their affair to his wife has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years imprisonment...Not even a life sentence then :/

[Ammi]

Sentencing, Mr Justice Jacobs said: “This is a case where I should sentence you on the basis you lost your self-control following the sending of the text message to your wife where the affair was revealed, rather than on the basis that you had no intention to kill or cause really serious harm.”

“I am sure that you did deliberately take Claire Parry by the neck applying significant force with your forearm or the crook of your elbow for a period of time while she struggled against you, thereby causing the severe neck injuries which the pathologist described.

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

“She said it was difficult to envisage a situation where a struggle in the car imparted 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 sentence in prison before he could apply for parole.

[Ammi]

Not even a life sentence then :/

...eligible for parole after two thirds sentence has been served....the value placed on a woman’s life...

[Niamh.]

...eligible for parole after two thirds sentence has been served....the value placed on a woman’s life...

Just say it was an accident or a sex game gone wrong and you're good to go

[arista]

I assume he will do half that.

[Ammi]

...he admitted to being a manipulative liar and knew how to play the justice system to ensure a minimum sentence...how devastating for her loved ones to feel this loss of justice as well...

[Kazanne]

The British judicial system is a farce,you get longer for robbing a bank than you do for murder, disgusting.

[arista]

He can never a Police man, again

[Ammi]

He can never a Police man, again

...Claire Parry can never breathe again...

[The Slim Reaper]

A really good thread from the secret barrister, well worth a read if you have 10 minutes

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[Crimson Dynamo]

He can never a Police man, again

he is now a policeman in jail for 7 years and that wont be easy

[Ammi]

...so the original sentencing of 12yrs and 6 months, immediately reduced by two years simply because of a guilty plea...the judge was certain that he did intentionally take her life but it really is about knowing the system, isn’t it...and who better than a manipulative police officer...

[Cherie]

People get 7 or 8 for burglary :skull:

this is a joke

[Nicky91]

People get 7 or 8 for burglary :skull:

this is a joke

here in netherlands you just get 2 years for murder

few months for burglary, robbery

[Niamh.]

here in netherlands you just get 2 years for murder

few months for burglary, robbery

What? That can't be right Nicky

[Nicky91]

What? That can't be right Nicky

yes, but more year sentences in psychiatric wards, where they can receive help and talk with experts about their crimes before they can be released again

that is the preferred sentence by our justice system

[Ammi]

yes, but more year sentences in psychiatric wards, where they can receive help and talk with experts about their crimes before they can be released again

that is the preferred sentence by our justice system

...I was just reading that with what you’d said, Nicky...so they’re psychiatric units rather than prisons ...and offenders are held there instead and assessed every few years..?..

There were 1,300 people detained with a TBS ruling in 2018: people stay in a treatment centre, sometimes after a jail term, and are treated for the psychological conditions that are thought to have played a role in their crime. Every two years, judges assess whether the treatment should be extended, and the average stay is two years.

[Kizzy]

And they want people to have faith in the rule of law? How can they when they're not seeing justice done?

[Tom4784]

It's disgusting. You can't accidentally strangle someone to death, he attacked and strangled her. It's murder.

[Niamh.]

Not too far off the real thing.........

https://newsthump.com/2020/10/28/careless-woman-accidentally-beaten-to-death-by-unlucky-man/?fbclid=IwAR3_E41bpigEOa-D8Ew2pGeNkbQYQDx0oY2CCYZ8vcRHuRzKS4X-wnJImwc

[Ammi]

..is that meant to be based on the actual case or just a coincidence, thing...

[Niamh.]

..is that meant to be based on the actual case or just a coincidence, thing...

I mean it was posted a day after the verdict so I'm assuming it's reactionary but I don't know for sure

[Ammi]

...I was looking to see if there were any comments at the bottom but it doesn’t seem to be a comment thing, it’s on a few sites from what I can see...He’s also a very lucky man to know the justice system the way that he does to be able to manipulate to a minimum sentence...By his own admission, a lying manipulator...

[Niamh.]

...I was looking to see if there were any comments at the bottom but it doesn’t seem to be a comment thing, it’s on a few sites from what I can see...He’s also a very lucky man to know the justice system the way that he does to be able to manipulate to a minimum sentence...By his own admission, a lying manipulator...

I know, such a miscarriage of justice

[Ammi]

...I honestly can’t imagine how her loved ones must feel...to live their lives with her being killed and now to live with such a shortfall of justice...just life destroying...