PC Timothy Brehmer has three years added to his 10-and-a-half year manslaughter jail term

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‘Manw***e’ police officer Timothy Brehmer’s manslaughter jail term has today been increased to 13-and-a-half years by the Court of Appeal.

The married police constable was jailed for 10-and-a-half years in September last year after being convicted of causing the death of Claire Parry in a pub car park in West Parley, Dorset, in May.

The 41-year-old was found not guilty of the mother-of-two’s murder, but was convicted of her manslaughter following a trial at Salisbury Crown Court. 

Brehmer had appealed the jail term to the Court of Appeal, claiming the sentence was too long.

The Attorney General’s Office, meanwhile, also referred the case to the same court under the unduly lenient sentence scheme.

Today judges have thrown out Brehmer’s appeal. They have instead increased his sentence by three years following the referral from the Attorney General’s Office.

The Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett said that the sentencing judge, Mr Justice Jacobs, ‘gave too little weight to the aggravating factors he had identified’.

He also said the judge had given too high of a discount on Brehmer’s sentence for his guilty plea to manslaughter.

Lord Burnett said: ‘The offender’s conduct and lies after the attack were reprehensible and calculated to deflect attention from what he had done.

‘These aggravating factors have the effect of moving above the starting point (for deciding the sentence) significantly before considering the mitigating factors.’ 

He added: ‘We quash the sentence of 10 and a half years imprisonment and substitute a sentence of 13 and a half years imprisonment.’ 

After the ruling, acting Attorney General Michael Ellis QC, said: ‘Because of his actions, Claire Parry’s family have lost a wife and mother, and her community have lost a dedicated nurse.

‘I greatly welcome the decision by the Court of Appeal today to increase Brehmer’s sentence.’

Mrs Parry, 41, died in Brehmer’s car in the car park of the Horns Inn, Dorset, on May 9 this year.

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

The Dorset Police officer, who is married to a detective in the same force, claimed he ‘fell on top of her by accident more than anything’ and his arms must have ‘slipped up’ around her neck while he was behind her in a ‘piggy-back position’. 

Brehmer 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.’

Mrs Parry was left with ‘unsurvivable brain injuries’ after she was strangled in the car park of the Horns Inn pub at about 3pm on May 9 and died in hospital the next day.

Her marriage to Dorset Police officer Andrew Parry was falling apart as he discovered her relationship with Brehmer, also of Dorset Police, however Brehmer’s detective wife, also from the same force, had no idea about his flings.

Trial judge Mr Justice Jacobs said he sentenced Brehmer for manslaughter on the basis that he ‘lost control’ after Mrs Parry sent the 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 that as a ‘trained and experienced’ road traffic police officer, Brehmer would have known Mrs Parry was seriously injured.

‘You were a trained and experienced police officer and your character witnesses described how you would help others.

‘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,’ the judge said.

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

A Dorset Police source told MailOnline: ‘A lot of Tim’s former colleagues were surprised that he was found not guilty of murder. 

‘He will now only serve ten years for her manslaughter but will likely be out in half that time on licence. 

‘When you think that Andrew Parry will never see his wife again and his children will never see their mum again, you have to question if 10-years is a suitable punishment.

‘I don’t think anybody would think it’s nearly enough.

‘He has taken a life and in the process left a whole family devastated.’

Salisbury Crown Court heard Brehmer had at least three affairs outside of his 14-year marriage.

Detective Constable Kate Rhodes, who ‘quickly fell in love’ with Brehmer, branded him a ‘man w***e’ and the police officer even described himself as a ‘devious b*****d’ who kept his wedding ring on during affairs.

Brehmer and Mrs Parry used ‘secret chats’ to communicate, had sex as often as twice a week and just days before the incident the pair had an ‘intimate quickie’.

Sources from within Dorset Police told MailOnline how well-spoken Brehmer had a reputation at work as a ladies’ man who managed to charm a number of lovers from within his own unit.

They said the smooth-talking officer, who is married to a detective in the same force, told each woman ‘you are the only one for me’ and sent song lyrics and sexualised messages to ‘suck them in’.

Brehmer, who admitted manslaughter but denied murder, is a former traffic officer who was seconded to the National Police Air Service and lived with his wife 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 Andrew, a Dorset Police officer, was a nurse practitioner at a medical centre in Bournemouth, Dorset.