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Drink-driver in 16-month ban GETTING behind the wheel while over the drink limit cost a New Milton motorist his driving licence for 16 months. Baden Hill (58), of Pleas - ance Way, pleaded guilty to committing the offence in the town on 29th March. In addition to the ban, South - ampton magistrates fined Hill £100 and ordered he pay £82 court costs. Photographer’s picture prize BOLDRE photographer Luke Parkinson snapped up a bronze award in a national competition by the Guild of Professional Photographers. Luke said he was “thrilled” to gain the accolade in the Image of the Month contest, which attracts more than 1,000 entries each time, with a picture of a garden bird perched above an outdoor tap. Cocaine sentence A MAN caught with around £150 of crack cocaine was handed a 12-month condi - tional discharge by magis - trates. Kelvin Hunt (31), of Downspark Avenue, Totton, admitted being in posses - sion of the class A controlled drug in the town on 18th June.

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any way, shape or form.” Cross-examined by prosecu - tor Richard Smith, Brehmer agreed that he was a “well prac - ticed liar” when it came to his affair, as his wife had not known anything about it. Mr Smith told him that at the time of meeting Mrs Parry on 9th May he was facing a “volca - no of threat that she would tell your wife”. Brehmer agreed with the prosecutor that if his wife – who he described as “5ft 1in of fero - ciousness” – had found out, it would have been “catastroph - ic”. The court has heard Mrs Parry’s injury was “severe”, her neck compressed for a “pro - longed” time, and there were signs she had tried to defend herself. Mr Smith accused Brehmer of being so angry after Mrs Par - ry had sent the text message to his wife, that “you took her life by taking her round the neck for so long and so hard. That’s the truth isn’t it?” Brehmer said: “No.” Referring to how Brehmer claimed he was going to kill himself by decapitation after meeting Mrs Parry, the pros - ecutor said he was effectively asking the jury to believe that “you were you going to go and rip your own head off”. Mr Smith asserted that the suicide threat had been to persuade Mrs Parry not to tell his wife, and that if that had worked Brehmer would have

Court heard the pair struggled in his car during affair row

BY ANTONELLA LAZZERI

A POLICE officer on trial for murdering his lover of 10 years sobbed uncontrollably as he told a jury of the moment he killed her as they struggled in his car during a row over his “perfect life”. Giving evidence at Salisbury Crown Court, defendant Timo - thy Brehmer, from Hordle, said Claire Parry had bombarded him with angry text messages for days before they met in the car park of the Horns Inn, West Parley, on 9th May this year. The trial has heard how he and Mrs Parry (41), a mother of two married to a police of - ficer, had branded him a “man whore” after discovering from a former girlfriend that he was a “womaniser”. Brehmer (41), of Woodcock Lane, whose wife Martha is a CID detective, said in the wit - ness box that before the meet - ing he was “feeling desperate”. But he could not confess to the affair, saying: “I’m a cow - ard.” Instead he planned to kill himself as he felt “desperate, low, sad”. He said Mrs Parry was “be - ing really nasty, kind of ranting via text messages” after seeing pictures of his family on social media. The jury has heard that Mrs Parry’s husband had told her he A LORRY driver has denied causing the death of an 89-year- old pedestrian in a collision in New Milton town centre early this year. Gary Horbury (57), of Fern - dale Road in the town, pleaded not guilty to causing Margaret Fraser’s death by driving a DAF CF heavy goods vehicle without due care and attention in Sta - tion Road on 20th January. As reported in the A&T, Mrs Fraser was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident which involved a crane-equipped Travis Perkins lorry. An inquest later heard that the grandmother, who lived in Waverley Road, had suffered multiple injuries. The collision took place around 1pm as she was cross - ing the road near Boots. Police closed the scene for about sev - en hours while they carried out investigations.

Timothy Brehmer has denied murdering Claire Parry

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was leaving her because he sus - pected she was seeing Brehmer. But the defendant said he did not know that when they met. Describing what happened at the car park, he said Mrs Parry had got in his vehicle and de - manded his phone before going through messages between him and his wife. He said: “She was just so an - gry. She was jealous of my ‘per - fect life’, as she called it” Some of the messages said: “I love you,” Brehmer told the court, adding: “Because I do love my wife, Martha. She’s in - nocent in all this in a million dif - ferent ways.” Brehmer, who has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denies murder, later revealed his wife has not spoken to him “since the day this incident happened”. The defendant said Mrs Par - ry sent a message from his

phone to his wife saying: “I am cheating on you” after which he asked her to get out of the car, but she refused. During the struggle to get her out he had “accidentally” fallen on top of her. He went on. “My left arm was round the top of her chest, across her collar - bone, but it must have slipped up.” Weeping, he said that he had rolled out and walked off, leav - ing Mrs Parry hanging out of the car. He said: “I didn’t check on her, I didn’t try to help her. I didn’t know she needed help.” Mrs Parry had a bone broken in her neck after it was “com - pressed” and died of a brain in - jury the next day. Asked if he had intended to kill her, Brehmer said: “Accord - ing to the charge sheet, I’m a murderer and that’s why I’m here today. “I didn’t intend to hurt her in ASSURANCES of Covid-secure measures failed to dissuade New Milton councillors from refusing permission for Coles funfair to set up in the town. The attraction had want - ed to use Fawcett’s Field from Monday 19th October to operate for two weekends, but amenities committee chair - man Cllr Geoffrey Blunden said this would not be appro - priate. Presenting the application to the committee’s virtual meeting on Monday, town clerk Graham Flexman said Coles had told how it had offered a “Covid-compliant” funfair since July. This had received a large amount of support during the past three months, the opera - tor said. But Cllr Blunden said: “Hav - ing cancelled car boot sales

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etc on Fawcett’s Field, I think at this particular time it would not be appropriate.” Agreeing, Cllr David Hawkins added: “We’ve got rising figures – infection rates are going up. Let’s not go there.” The A&T asked Wood - lands-based B. Cole & Sons Family Fairground for a com - ment but did not receive a re - sponse.

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Following Horbury’s not- guilty plea, Southampton mag - istrates granted him uncon - ditional bail to appear at the city’s crown court for trial on 13th November.

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