Pc applies to appeal against sentence for manslaughter of long-term lover

A “womanising” police officer jailed for strangling his long-term lover has applied to appeal his sentence.

Timothy Brehmer was jailed for 10 and a half years last month at Salisbury Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of mother-of-two Claire Parry.

He was acquitted by a jury of murder.

The Court of Appeal has confirmed the 41-year-old has applied to appeal against the sentence.

A spokeswoman said: “This person has made an application for leave to appeal sentence.”

The move comes as the Attorney General’s Office is considering a complaint under its Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme.

A spokesman for the office said: “We have received a request for the sentence of Timothy Brehmer to be reviewed under the Unduly Lenient Sentence (ULS) scheme.

“The law officers have 28 days from sentencing to consider the case and make a decision.”

Mrs Parry, 41, died during a “kerfuffle” in Brehmer’s car in the car park of the Horns Inn in West Parley, Dorset, on May 9 this year.

Brehmer, a married father, claimed the nurse accidentally suffered the fatal injury while he was trying to push her out of his Citroen car so he could drive away.

Trial judge Mr Justice Jacobs said he sentenced Brehmer for manslaughter on the basis that he “lost control” after Mrs Parry sent a text message to his wife, Martha, also a police officer.

“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,” he said.

The judge said as a “trained and experienced” road traffic police officer, Brehmer would have known Mrs Parry was seriously injured.

He added: “Yet you did nothing to try to help Claire Parry. You did not ask her how she was. That was because you knew how she was.”

Brehmer, of Hordle, Hampshire, will serve two-thirds of his sentence in prison before he can apply for parole.