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The police are meant to protect us
from the worst of society.

We trust them to uphold the law...

...and keep us safe.

But what happens when the protector
becomes the predator?

He's performing
as a protector of the public.

On the other hand, he's actually
a really dark monster.

And the people who are meant to
keep us safe become dangerous.

I'm arresting you on
suspicion of attempted murder.

Even as a police officer, people
feel that they're above the law.

But how do you catch
a criminal who thinks like a cop?

He's got a head start
on the investigation team.

He's panicking at this point
and he's now running.

I've enlisted
the help of three experts.

Two officers that have put
hundreds of offenders behind bars...

Most people, they know
when their back's against the wall

and they're going
to get convicted for something.

The horror, he's one of us.

..and a leading psychologist
who can analyse the criminal mind.

Underlying that anger is the need
to dominate, is the need to control.

In this series I'll discover cops

who put themselves
on the wrong side of the law.

He's like a Jekyll
and Hyde character

...abuse their power
and commit horrific crimes.

He should never have had
that badge... ever.

We expect our police to behave
with honesty and integrity.

They're the ones we call on
in a crisis.

So, what happens when a trusted
police officer turns to lying

and cheating,
and ultimately to murder?

On the 9th of May 2020,

in the small town of West Parley,
just outside Bournemouth,

CCTV cameras at a local pub

capture a man
stumbling across the car park.

A 999 call comes in
from a member of the public.

They've come across a man
who's very, very distressed,

crying, shouting,

with what appears
like stab wounds on his arms.

Police and paramedic crews
race to the scene.

When the officers turn up,
it's a really confusing scene.

They can see that the man
who is shouting and distressed

is somebody they know
and they work with in the force.

They recognise him to be Timothy
Brehmer, a serving police officer.

They can see behind him,
a short distance,

a vehicle with a female body slumped
half in, half out of the car.

This sunny Saturday afternoon
has taken a sinister turn.

What makes this even
more stressful and traumatic,

is the paramedics, when they turn up

and start giving the person
first aid, they recognise her

as a colleague they work with
in emergency services.

It's a nurse called Claire Parry.

Claire is in a critical condition.

As paramedics try to stabilise her,

PC Timothy Brehmer's
stab wounds are treated.

Ready, one, two, three.

Up you come.

He starts confessing to everything
that's happened up to this point.

That's alright.
- Ohh!

Who stabbed PC Brehmer?

What happened to Claire Parry?

And how did the police figure out
what happened in that car park?

To help me
get to grips with the case,

I'm speaking to former Detective
Chief Superintendent Fiona Mallon.

The paramedics
are doing everything they can

to keep Claire alive.

She gets taken
to the Bournemouth General Hospital

and they manage
to restart her heart.

Claire is alive, but barely.

The only one with any answers
to what went on is Brehmer.

But his version of events
only raises more questions.

What did they know?
- At this point in time,

Brehmer's really confused

and he's changing his story
every minute or so.

One minute he's saying that Claire
stabbed him with a penknife,

then he is saying
he might have done it himself.

Now, you can look at this
in two ways.

Either Brehmer's in shock.

He can't work out what to say,

or actually he's thinking now
that it's time to save himself,

and he needs to start blaming
Claire for attacking him,

and he was defending himself.

Who thinks like that?

We'll move him.
Yeah, that's fine, yeah.

We'll get him in there. We'll
leave the questioning to you guys.

We'll just medically look at it
and go from there.

Right, Tim,
do you want to stand up a minute?

Yeah.

As Claire clings to life,

Brehmer's police colleagues
launch an urgent investigation.

We don't know the set of
circumstances that has led up

to what's happened
between Timothy and Claire.

All we know is that, as an end
result, Claire has been assaulted.

What are these two people doing
in this situation

on a Saturday afternoon
in a pub car park?

It's alright.
- Ohh!

On the 9th of May, 2020,

PC Timothy Brehmer was found
sitting in a pub car park

with stab wounds to his arm.

Behind him, nurse Claire Parry
was found slumped in a car,

barely alive.

But is Brehmer a victim
or the attacker?

So far, his version of events is the
only thing police have got to go on.

It soon becomes clear,

Brehmer and Claire were not
strangers to one another.

Brehmer's story is of a secret
affair gone horrendously wrong,

a jealous rage,

threats of suicide, and his lover,
Claire, left for dead.

But who is Timothy Brehmer?

And how did this police officer
end up on the wrong side of the law?

What can you tell me
about Timothy Brehmer?

Brehmer was 41 years old,
serving with Dorset Police.

Married, and they had,
on outward appearances,

a normal, healthy relationship.

He was well thought of in the force,
did a number of roles.

What would Brehmer's day to day
be like as a police officer?

He moved from frontline
duties into road traffic policing,

obviously, dealing with
road traffic accidents,

anything to do
with, sort of, vehicle crime.

And then he took on a specialist
course called Family Liaison,

which is a really sensitive role
where you work

with bereaved families, or those
going through who have lost people

through homicides or other,
sort of, road traffic accidents.

He then got in an accident, an
altercation with a motorist one day,

and it affected him quite badly,

in that he felt
that he couldn't do his job,

and he was moved onto
the National Police Air Service.

As a police officer,

and around his colleagues,
how was he seen?

He was actually,
in the early part of his career,

regarded as a bit of a hero.

Him and a colleague managed to save

a family from a burning building,
and their three cats.

They saved them all, saved their
lives, phenomenal bravery.

From that he got enormous
respect from his colleagues

and management alike.

They thought
he was a fantastic officer.

So, how does
this decorated police officer,

a pillar of the community

end up being questioned
by his colleagues

whilst his lover's life
is hanging in the balance?

To help me get to the truth, I need
to speak to someone in the know.

I'm just on my way to Dorset

to meet somebody, a journalist,

who knows a lot about this case,

and, hopefully, can fill in
exactly what happened.

Local journalist Ben Williets
remembers covering this story.

Brehmer was having an affair
with Claire Parry.

She was married, and was a nurse
for quite a number of years,

and met Bremmer in 2005.

And they then had a relationship,

which Brehmer himself described as
sexually flirtatious and infrequent,

until 2010, 2011,
where it became more frequent

and very sexually orientated,

where they continued
on and off for ten years.

Claire knew he was married.

Was he leading Claire down the path
of "I will leave my wife for you?"

Initially, she didn't know
he was married.

And then when she found out,

I think that that was certainly
an aspect of it,

that they were gonna, you know,
leave their husbands and wives

and run off into the sunset,
so to speak.

Did either of their partners

become aware
that they were having an affair?

Claire's husband
had his suspicions.

He found emails
from Claire to Brehmer.

He also found a rugby top under her
bed, which didn't belong to him,

which is assumed that was Brehmer's,

and also bank statements
from their joint account

for Travelodges, and also a phone
bill, which had lots of calls

and messages to the same number. So,
that really raised his suspicions.

Both Claire and Brehmer
were married with young families.

Getting the news she was
in hospital, fighting for her life,

whilst he was in custody,
accused of attempted murder,

would have come as a huge shock
to their partners and families.

Didn't any of Brehmer's
police colleagues know

about the double life he was living?

There was also in the background
murmurings and whispers

around him being a bit of a charmer.

Flirt a lot with women,
would look for women to talk to

and, sort of, be a bit sexual,
in terms of flirtation.

On one level,
he's this really respected officer

who saved people's lives;
on another, he's a womaniser.

Womaniser or not,
that doesn't explain

what happened in the car park
that day,

or prove who was responsible.

The investigators need evidence.

To help me
understand the challenge they faced,

I'm speaking to ex-Met Detective
Chief Inspector Howard Groves.

When it comes to Brehmer,

because he has injuries,

do you question them there
and then about what's gone on?

The officers would want
to establish what happened.

So, they would ask him
basic questions.

It wouldn't be a full-blown
interview for obvious reasons,

but they'd want to ask him how first
he received those injuries.

Did he know who
the person in the vehicle was,

whether the vehicle belonged to him?

They would just want to establish
the basic facts at the time.

And those officers
had body cameras on them.

Initially, he said
that he had been stabbed.

So, the officer had to establish
whether those facts were true.

The challenge for
the investigators is to establish

exactly what happened
inside that car

that left Claire
with such terrible injuries.

So far, the only person talking
is Brehmer.

Brehmer's account of events
is that he had met Claire

in the car park.
They were both in his vehicle.

She was telling him that
she was going to tell his wife

about the affair
that they were having.

He, obviously, was not happy with
that and wanted to do it himself.

Claire then grabs his phone from him

and sends a text to Brehmer's wife,

basically, saying, "I'm cheating."

And as a result of that, he tried
to get her out of the vehicle.

She didn't want to do that,
and he was trying to push her out,

and that's when the injuries
that she received happened.

Did they hold him responsible
for what's happened to Claire?

The first thing the officers
would be thinking about

is whether or not
the account that he provided,

on the basic information,

whether that fits
what they actually come across,

bearing in mind
Claire was actually unconscious;

they couldn't ask her any questions.

Brehmer is adamant
that Claire was injured

as he was trying to push her out
of the passenger seat of his car.

But that doesn't explain
the wounds on his arm.

So, how did Brehmer
end up getting stabbed?

So, he had his own penknife,
which he kept in his car...

...and he stabbed himself.

He claimed he was trying
to get Claire's attention

to stop her texting Brehmer's wife.

However, he went and sat
at the front of the car park.

He claimed
that he was stabbed by Claire.

Let me just get this straight.
So, he's saying

that he wanted to get Claire's
attention away from texting his wife

to let his wife know
that he was cheating on her.

So, he stabbed himself, and then
went to the front of the road

and told people
that she'd stabbed him.

Yeah, absolutely. Which, again,
is a theme of his life.

He's just lying
all the way through.

I can't get my head around this.

He's seen on the police body
camera saying he didn't know

how he got the stab wounds.
Then he's saying

that Claire stabbed him,
and then he did them to himself.

Which is it?

Brehmer's changing his story
every... every minute or so.

When I've watched the video footage

of Brehmer in the back
of the ambulance,

and also the walking
about beforehand, the crying,

the hand moving,
and everything else, he's trapped.

He's got his colleagues there
who recognise him.

For me, this is a classic piece
of theatre where he's trying

to make himself look innocent.

He's walking around sobbing
and crying.

I think he just looks pathetic.

Brehmer is a well-trained copper
and a serial liar.

So, is he just using his skill and
experience to put on a performance?

Because if he is...
it's pretty convincing.

But would Brehmer's police
colleagues believe

what he's telling them?

Is there any evidence to prove it,

or is it just another
one of his lies?

The account provided by Brehmer
that he was just trying to push her

out the vehicle,
the two don't marry up.

Your initial thoughts
to that explanation would be,

that's definitely
not the circumstances,

but, as a police officer,
you know that there are going to be

medical opportunities
for you to be able to prove

that those injuries
couldn't have been caused

by somebody
that's pushing someone out.

Rather than a tragic accident,
there's a far darker explanation.

He was annoyed that Claire
had used his phone to text his wife.

And I think, in a fit of pique,

he decided
that he was going to attack her

because she was somebody
who was now going to have an impact

on his relationship with his wife.

He would have probably
not been able to see his son.

So, there's a lot going on in his
head at the time of that attack.

The fact that Brehmer
is a police officer,

when they arrive at the scene,

does that change anything,
the way they treat him?

No, him being a police officer

wouldn't be an issue
for the police officers.

As far as they were concerned,

here is somebody who has stab
wounds, or injuries, to his hand.

We know that there's a female
in a car who's unconscious.

So, all they want to do
is establish the facts.

And who's injured?
How's it happened?

Once they identified Claire's
details, it was established

that she had a relationship
with Brehmer for at least 11 years.

So, there would be an awful lot
of information

that those officers
would want to establish

either from him,
his colleagues, his wife.

Did his wife know
about that relationship?

Did any of his colleagues
know about it?

The fast-paced investigation
reaches an inevitable conclusion,

that whatever happened
to Claire in the car,

Brehmer was responsible,

either directly or indirectly.

What they don't know
is why Claire chose that moment

to confront Brehmer
and expose their affair to his wife.

She had known he had a wife
for over a decade.

So, why now?

There was rumours.
These gathered pace.

And Claire Parry
started to get suspicious.

She thought she was the other woman,

but, actually, there were many,
many more.

May 2020,

and Police Constable
Timothy Brehmer of Dorset Police

has been arrested
for the attempted murder

of his lover, Claire Parry.

Their decade-long affair had ended
with a brutal and violent attack,

leaving Claire fighting
for her life.

But as Brehmer's police colleagues
dig into his personal life,

they discover a tipping point
in the pair's relationship.

So, Brehmer and Claire had been
having an on-off relationship

for, sort of, 10, 11 years.

And the latter part,
Claire had become suspicious

that she was one of many women,

and that he was cheating on her

as well as his wife, in her mind.

So, she sets up
a fake Facebook account,

and she starts
to do her own inquiry

around what women Brehmer's been in
touch with, who he's going out with,

what photos are available.

And she comes to the conclusion,

he's a serial womaniser,
and she feels cheated.

So, Claire wasn't the only woman
Brehmer was seeing.

He was even cheating on his
mistress with multiple women.

How did Claire react
when she found out

that she wasn't the only one?

This is where Claire
became incredibly angry.

And she felt that she'd been cheated
and lied to and deceived.

And all the time, I think,
she was given false promises

by Brehmer, saying, you know,
"I love you. I can't leave.

"I love you, I've got family,"
whatever. So, she stayed.

But, also, during this time,
her own marriage broke up,

which was really sad.

So, she's now left
with the realisation

that the man she'd been with
and spending time with

was actually cheating on her.

What did she have left?
And then she became angry,

and she wanted to get her own back.

She wanted to destroy
Brehmer's home life too.

What did she do?
- She contacted Brehmer.

Brehmer's with his family
in the garden,

and he makes an excuse to his wife
that he's gonna go out

and get some food for the barbecue.

But, actually,
he's arranged to meet with Claire.

I think Brehmer still thinks
he can get his own way,

he can influence her,
"Everything's alright, don't worry."

You know, "You're the one for me."

But Claire's not having it.

And Claire sends a text to his wife
about cheating.

At which point the tension
between them escalates,

and then Brehmer attacks Claire.

Brehmer is a pathological liar.

He's been caught out,
and he doesn't like it.

For years,
he's managed a double life.

He's been with his wife
who didn't suspect,

and his family,

and playing
the respected police officer.

So, he's playing
this big sort of chess board,

and everything's
nice and controlled,

and suddenly
he's gonna come crashing down

cos Claire's had enough
and she wants

to expose him to his wife
and ruin his marriage.

Brehmer flipped
and brutally attacked Claire,

causing her to lose consciousness

before lying about what happened
to the witnesses on the scene,

the police and the paramedics.

When he leaves the car
and he starts talking about it,

he delays getting
any medical help to her.

So, in those vital minutes,
when he's flailing about,

talking about himself,

actually they could have
had immediate care to Claire.

Tragically, Claire never
regains consciousness

and dies the following day.

In your mind, did you think he
actually intended to kill her?

I think he did, yeah.

Brehmer was a police officer,

someone trusted and respected.

And yet he was capable
of doing something so terrible

to someone he said he loved.

Just what was going on in his mind?

To help me understand,

I'm speaking to chartered
psychologist, Serena Simmons.

I think, ultimately for me, when
you look at Brehmer's presentation,

what I see is someone
who cannot regulate his emotions

and has no control
over his sense of self.

And how he exhibits that

is in his inability
to stay faithful to his partner

and his inability to monitor
and regulate his own emotions.

He's a compulsive liar.

He's used to having multiple affairs
and being with multiple women.

So, you imagine
what that's like in reality.

You'll have to tell a lot of stories
to a lot of different people

and be able to keep
the narrative going

with several different people at the
same time. Takes a lot of effort.

So, any sign
of that house of cards coming down

is gonna be feel
even more threatening.

For any rational person,
it would be like,

"I couldn't deal
with the stress of it all."

Whereas for him, he probably enjoyed
the control of all that,

having all these puppets
at the end of the strings.

There's obviously
something about this lifestyle

that he got a lot out of.

I think it served him,
and it served a purpose for him,

but, obviously,
it became more complicated

when there was the threat to this
all being taken away from him,

and something that was
happening out of his control.

And he wanted
to regain that control back.

It was only a matter of time

before all Brehmer's deception
caught up with him.

But no-one could have anticipated
it catching up

in such a vicious and tragic way.

How was Brehmer seen by his peers,
work colleagues?

The fact that he was a serial
adulterer was very well known

to people that worked alongside him.

In actual fact, it was so well known

that people chose to call him
various different nicknames,

for example, Mr Smooth.

These are very telling signs
that people knew

exactly what his character
was really like.

I mean that just...
it does what it says on the tin.

It's obvious
the kind of person he is.

Reputation is one thing,

but if the investigators were going
to prove that Brehmer was lying,

they'd need hard evidence.

A lot of analysis would be
done in the vehicle.

It would have been fingerprinted

even though we know
both of them were in there.

They would have considered that,
looked at the seatbelts.

They would look at what position
somebody would have to be

to receive the injuries.

He said he was almost on top of her
as he was trying to get her out.

And as they dig deeper,

the evidence against Brehmer
begins to mount.

The mobile phones of both
parties would be significant

because it would have shown,
earlier on in the day,

when Brehmer had finished work.

He rang Claire
in the early hours of the morning,

There's a conversation between them.

Later on Claire rings him and says,
"I want to have a chat with you."

They agree
where they're going to meet,

so that timeline would be
relevant to the investigation.

We know from the autopsy, it showed

that she had actually received,
a significant blow to her mouth,

which caused abrasions
and lacerations inside her mouth.

A small bone in her neck
was also broken.

She had at least 11 bruises
to her right, upper arm.

She had a further ten bruises
and abrasions on her left arm.

And she had significant bruising
in the area of her chest.

When you think
about all of those injuries,

it meant that significant force
was used against her.

Obviously,
it sounds like he's strangled her,

or, you know, he's choked her.

But with all the other bruises
and injuries

and in such a small space in a car,

it sounds like
he's completely lost it.

And we know that Claire also
put up a fight as well,

but he, obviously,
had her in a restrained hold

for long enough
for her to be unconscious.

She fought as hard as she could.

But, bearing in mind, he's a police
officer, he would know

how to restrain someone,
and he would know

what amount of force to use.

So, how long do we think
he probably strangled her for?

Between 10 to 30 seconds
of continual pressure.

The fact that Brehmer
choked Claire for that long

and caused so many injuries
to her body,

tells me all I need
to know about this cop.

But evidence of what happened
after the attack

would prove just as important.

The most telling bit of evidence
that they had

was based on the text message

that was sent from Brehmer's phone
to his wife.

It was Claire who sent that
message at 15:02 to his wife.

And we know
that three minutes after that

he then tries to wipe the data
from his phone.

So, minutes after the attack,

Brehmer is trying
to reset his mobile phone.

In the midst of everything,
in all that emotional distress,

Brehmer still thought
to reset his phone.

The mere fact that he's doing
a factory reset

shows that there's intent
on his part

to hide something
from the investigators.

So, even though
he's distressed about it,

as you can see from the footage,

he still had the mindset
to try and minimise any evidence

that the police officers would
subsequently be looking to find.

This is truly despicable.

Someone who is supposed
to be trustworthy and honest

is not only telling lie after lie,

but he's actively trying to destroy
evidence and cover his tracks.

Does he really think he's going
to get away with murder?

So, Brehmer would've known,
as an experienced police officer,

he knows what he's doing.

He will know...

that the offences that the police
are gonna look at him for,

the assault,

he knows that he's gotta show
some sort of loss of control,

diminished responsibility,

confused state, to help him
get out of this situation.

And that's what it feels
like he's doing.

It's cold and calculating
and gives a glimpse

of the real Timothy Brehmer.

But how did his true nature
go under the radar

with his colleagues in the police,

especially when some of those women
he was cheating with

were fellow officers themselves?

Dorset is a relatively
small force.

1,500 people,
very tight-knit, close.

Everyone would've known
each other's business.

Everyone would've been talking.

But if you juxtapose that
against the fact

that he's a really
respected officer,

who has been recognised for bravery
and for saving lives,

perhaps people thought,
"Well, if he's having affairs,

"that's down to him.
It's his private life."

He's not causing anyone harm,
as far as they could see.

And he's a really
well-thought-of officer.

Perhaps that, in itself,
was enough just to let it go.

It wasn't causing anyone harm

until Brehmer did
what he did to Claire.

There was no significant red flags

about his ability to be
a professional police officer.

But there were comments raised
about him being a womaniser

from an early stage of his career.

So, one could say,
was any action taken?

Did any officer make
any complaints against him?

To put it bluntly,
it doesn't show a good character

if someone is having
extramarital affairs,

but is not a sackable offence.

He is a police officer;
we have to remember that.

But he's also a very,
very good liar.

A manipulator.

Is that someone
you want to have in the force?

No, of course not.
You don't want dishonest people.

You want people with integrity
and ethics,

and people who know the difference
between right and wrong.

He was a serial liar.

He lived in a fantasy world.

He thought
he was irresistible to women.

And he thought that he could have
any woman he wanted,

and it didn't matter,
he wouldn't be found out.

I'm so sorry.
It's alright.

He was very clever
in how he managed his time

and how he manipulated
others around him.

So, not only
was he lying to his wife,

and to Claire,
but also he was manipulating

and lying to supervising officers
around him,

so that he could work his shifts,

so that he'd go and see
the women he wanted to see.

He was very clever in how he, again,
was puppeteering all the time,

controlling everybody

I just can't get
Brehmer's wife out of my mind.

She's just found out

her hero husband has been cheating
on her for ten years

It's likely
his police colleagues knew,

but said nothing,

and now he's in custody,

and his lover is dead.

I'm sure there are
many of those colleagues

who will be asking themselves
the question,

"Why didn't we say something
about it?

"Why didn't we approach him and say,

'Everybody knows what you're doing.
Maybe you wanna stop.'"

Or even to the woman he was having
those relationships with,

who were police officers, "Really?"

We now know that Claire
didn't have any idea about it.

So, he was able to hide

and live this double life.

This horrific attack was
carried out by a police officer,

someone who is supposed to protect
people and keep them safe,

not lie and deceive

and ultimately to kill.

And when the chips were down,
he never thought about Claire,

only what he needed
to do to protect himself.

In that moment, what's fascinating

is that he steps into victim mode.

So, instead of doing what would be
the right thing in that situation,

aside from not having done it
in the first place,

but to call an ambulance
to get help for her,

no, he switches into victim.

"Poor me."
It's all about him and poor him.

And I think
that's just very illustrative

of the fact that he slipped
into that little boy,

that very insecure little boy
who wants attention

and needs to have
his needs met first.

It's taking complete attention
off the person

that really is requiring that
at that time.

That's quite cold, isn't it?

Straightaway you're thinking about,
"Right.

"How do I protect myself
in this situation?"

Yeah, he is.

But this is typical of the person

who's managed so many people's lives
and controlled them,

and done it clinically,
and, clearly, for a number of years.

PC Timothy Brehmer had
admitted, on arrest on 9th May 2020,

that there was a struggle in his car

that led to the death of nurse,
Claire Parry.

Can you remember
what the response was like

from the community, when you heard a
local police officer had done this?

Yeah, just... just shock, I think,
especially for a respected officer.

Nobody knew what he was like
outside of his police work.

Nobody knew his dealings
with women.

So, they thought he was
quite a well-respected man.

Just really, really surprised
and disappointed as well

in the force and in Brehmer himself.

Brehmer met with Claire in
this pub car park in Dorset.

While they were in his car,
she used his phone to text his wife,

revealing their affair.

He claimed she was then
accidentally injured in a kerfuffle

as he tried to push her out
of the car, so he could drive away.

Despite Brehmer's claims
it was an accident,

investigators
have uncovered evidence

that Claire was deliberately killed

But without irrefutable proof
or eyewitnesses,

there's still some doubt
as to exactly what happened.

Why couldn't we see on CCTV
what happened in that car?

So, where they parked,
where we're stood now,

CCTV doesn't cover this area.

The only things we can see is
them driving in from the entrance,

and then 20 minutes later

Brehmer walks to the front and sits
on the pavement just outside.

But then that makes me think, is
Brehmer using his police knowledge

to know that this area
of the car park isn't on CCTV?

Whether he is that calculated,
I don't know.

But he certainly would know
that there'd be areas

where CCTV doesn't cover.

Were there other ways
in which Brehmer used the skills

he had learnt as a cop
to cover his tracks?

He tries to wipe his phone
at an early stage.

The method that he's used
to restrain her,

and he was thinking
ahead of the game.

He gets out of the vehicle.
He then tries to give the impression

that he's been attacked,
so, he's giving a story.

Although when you think about it,
long-term,

that story wouldn't hold
for too long.

It's his police knowledge,
his police experience.

He knows
he's gonna be asked questions,

so, he has to come up with
an answer.

Despite his deception and
destruction of crucial evidence

Brehmer is arrested
and charged with Claire's murder.

But at his pre-trial hearing the
police officer pleads not guilty.

So, Brehmer pleaded guilty
to manslaughter.

He admitted killing Claire Parry,
but denied meaning to.

His story was always that he was
trying to get her out the car

and accidentally killed her
in the kerfuffle.

Dorset police and the CPS together
decided there was enough evidence

to try for murder, which he denied.

So, that was when the trial came in.

Despite admitting killing Claire,

Brehmer maintained his story

that it was unintentional.

I just don't buy it, and neither did
the police or the CPS.

Brehmer appeared at Sailsbury
Crown Court in October 2020

facing a murder charge.

Local journalist Ben reported on it.

It was during Covid, so we weren't
able to be in court in person,

so had to watch it via live link,
which made it difficult

because we couldn't see
Brehmer's reactions

to other witnesses
giving their statements.

Did he say anything in court?

So, in his defence, Brehmer
actually gave evidence in court.

And he came across
as very eccentric, I thought.

He described his affair with Claire
as a bubble of niceness.

He said, when he was with Claire,

he was suspended
in the best state of himself.

And he said his relationship
with her

was the nice things
you get in a relationship,

rather than all the tricky things
you might get in a marriage.

And you wouldn't have associated
his eccentric personality

with the images you see of him.

When I saw his custody photo,
where he looked really rugged,

it really did take me back
at how different he was in court.

He claimed
that he didn't mean to kill her,

and he was trying to get her out of
his car, so he could kill himself.

The prosecution put it to him that,
as a trained police officer,

in the road traffic unit, used
to dealing with serious incidents,

he would've known what it would
take to actually kill someone

by strangling them
in the crook of his arm.

This guy has proven himself

to be a serial liar and a cheat.

Why would anyone believe him now?

My reading is that he's cold.

He knows what he's doing,
and he's playing the audience,

and he's playing to the people
who know him at work.

He's hoping
they'll have pity on him,

they'll like him,
they'll side with him,

and he's doing everything he can
to encourage their favour.

Shockingly, the tactic works.

Brehmer has previously
admitted manslaughter.

And after less than three hours the
jury at Salisbury Crown Court

agreed he was not guilty of murder.

The jury would've had to be
sure beyond reasonable doubt

that he did mean to kill her.
The CCTV at the Horns Inn,

you can't see what happened
in the car,

so, you've only
got their version of events.

But he was then sentenced
on the basis that he lost control,

which is a partial defence
to murder.

The judge said there
was the qualifying trigger,

which was the message
sent to his wife.

He said that that message
should have come from Tim.

So, a man of a similar build and age
would have also lost control,

and in losing control took Claire
by the neck and killed her.

Not guilty, after all of that.

So, what happens is then
he accepts the manslaughter charge,

and he gets convicted for and
sentenced for ten and a half years,

which is later appealed
as being too lenient.

And he ends up getting
13 and a half years imprisonment.

It must've been a bitter blow
for the investigators

that had so painstakingly built
the case against Brehmer.

But for Claire's family,

who had been hoping
to see justice done,

it must have been devastating.

Could you just explain

the difference between manslaughter
and murder?

Murder is premeditated.

You've planned it,
you've set out to kill someone,

and you take those necessary steps.

Manslaughter,
you could say it's an accident,

or "I intended to assault them,

"but I didn't intend to kill them."

But he had a chance to stop,
and he didn't.

So, in that point,
when he didn't stop,

doesn't that become murder then?

The nuances of murder
and manslaughters are apparent.

But during the trial,
the judge actually made comment

and said that he felt that
the defence

had actually met the standards
for of loss of control,

and therefore manslaughter
was the appropriate conviction.

It just doesn't seem enough.

If that was my daughter in the back
of that car that he killed,

13 and a half years
doesn't seem nowhere near enough.

As an ex-police officer, I can
understand the sentencing guidelines

and why they arrived
at that decision.

As a father, I don't think that
13 and a half years is sufficient.

You have to take into account
the time that he had already served

when he was on remand.

He's going to get at least a third
of that sentence knocked off again.

So, within eight years,

he would be a free man again
to go out

and build relationships
with other people.

Claire's family will still
be grieving over her loss.

So, sometimes you can say that
justice doesn't seem to be fair.

PC Timothy Brehmer
violently attacked

and ultimately killed Claire

because she exposed him
for who he really was.

Do you think Brehmer would be
thinking to himself,

"I've just got away with murder?"

The fact is he did get away with
it. He's got 13 and a half years.

His marriage is over and, obviously,
his family's torn apart.

He'll still be able to live his
life. He'll still have a life.

Yes. Claire hasn't, no.

There wasn't just one victim here.

Although they'd separated,

Claire had a husband,
a family and friends.

I can't imagine
what they must have been through.

Brehmer has lost everything.

He's lost his freedom,
he's lost his career,

he's lost having time
to be with his family,

his children and his loved ones,

really, as a result
of what he's done.

He's literally lost everything.

Do you think there was
any remorse from Brehmer?

I think he may have felt remorse
that she had gone.

He'd been with her for 11 years.

I think more the remorse
would be centred around the fact

that this lifestyle,
this house of cards

that he had very carefully built
over so many years

had now fallen because
he liked the lifestyle that he had.

I think he liked the character
that he could portray.

And so any remorse, any true remorse

would really come
from losing everything,

not just having killed Claire.

Having worked
in institutions myself

and dealt with people
who have committed murder,

it's not unusual for people
who've committed such an act

to have to work through their own
emotions around what they've done.

Believe it or not, some people find
it also quite traumatic

that they've done these things, and
they have to think about and process

this awful thing that they've done.

I think there are signs here
with Brehmer

that he might have to do some of
that psychological work himself.

What's your opinion of Brehmer?

I think he's despicable.

He's everything I hate in a person,

in that he's a liar, he's a cheater.

He's weak, he's narcissistic,

and he's looking after himself
the whole time.

And to then put a uniform on
and say he is about public service

is an insult to policing

and to everybody he loves around
him, or who loves him.

As a cop, Brehmer
was in a position of trust

and responsibility,
and he abused that.

He lied, he cheated
and manipulated people.

And when that sense of control
was lost, he turned to murder.

In my opinion, he was never
fit to wear that uniform.

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