A “womanising” police officer said he “accidentally” killed his lover during a row after she threatened to tell his wife about their affair, a court heard.
Brehmer had previously told police said he was trying to get the 41-year-old mum-of-two out of his car after she sent a text to his wife revealing their ten year-long affair, jurors heard.
Prison Officer Scott Stentiford, who was working on a wing for “vulnerable” prisoners in HMP Exeter, Dorset, said Brehmer, 41, told the court he had spoken to him about the killing.
Mr Stentiford said: “[Brehmer] said [Mrs Parry] was in the car with him and she was angry and wanted to tell his wife what was going on. She said ‘it needs to be said’.
“Mr Brehmer didn’t think it appropriate that she should tell his wife. He felt it would be more appropriate to tell her himself.
“He said he tried to stop her from getting out of the vehicle. He said as she went to get out he grabbed her pocket to try and pull her back into the vehicle but it wasn’t enough.
“He said he grabbed her and put his arm up to pull her into the car and he said in the process he thinks he accidentally broke a bone in her neck.”
Mr Stentiford said the Dorset Police officer then began to talk about how he ‘had lost everything since being in prison’.
He told Salisbury Crown Court: “He said ‘he would never be coming back to prison again once he is released.’
“He told me he had lost everything since being in prison – his wife, his house, his car, his son and he told me had lost somebody else he loved as well…
“He told me he used to be just like me. I didn’t know what he meant by that. He told me he used to be a policemen which I was quite surprised by…
“Being a prison officer, we are trained never to put our arms around someone’s neck during a restraint.”
Mr Stentiford said that Brehmer ‘didn’t shed a single tear’ while he was talking and it was like a ‘normal conversation’.
He told the court: “To me, losing everything would be heartbreaking. To talk to anyone and to relive what I didn’t have would probably destroy me.
“I didn’t feel he showed a great deal of tears – there were none. It just felt like I was having a conversation with him. That’s just my opinion.”
The prison officer also told the court that Brehmer seemed to be ‘a polite and intelligent man” and that the father of one had declined a move to a new cell, as he wanted a room that faced ‘home’.
The Dorset Police officer is accused of ‘angrily and deliberately’ strangling Mrs Parry in the car park of the Horns Inn in West Parley, Dorset after she threatened to reveal their decade-long affair to his detective wife.
The court has also heard Brehmer, described as a ‘man whore’ by Mrs Parry in messages before her death, seduced other women in the emergency services.
Dorset Police’s DC Kate Rhodes, who met Brehmer while working at the force, said she had an affair with him and ‘fell in love’ before realising he was married.
The court has heard Brehmer, who married Dorset Police DC Martha Brehmer in 2006, told each of his lovers ‘you’re the only one for me’ and would shower them with song lyrics and sexualised messages to ‘suck them in’.
Brehmer, admits manslaughter but denies murder, after the incident on May 9 this year.
Dorset Police officer Andrew Parry, Mrs Parry’s widower, told the court he grew suspicious after discovering clues suggesting his wife was cheating on him and by the time of her death their marriage had fallen apart.
Brehmer is a former traffic officer who was seconded to the National Police Air Service (NPAS) and lived with Mrs Brehmer and their nine year old son in the village of Hordle in Hampshire’s New Forest National Park.
Mrs Parry, who had an eight year old girl and a six year old boy with her husband, was a nurse practitioner at a medical centre in their home town of Bournemouth, Dorset.
The trial continues.
Source: Mirror
