Well, the judge's sentencing remarks on Timothy Brehmer couldn't be clearer. Or more disturbing (below from BBC News)

'Mr Justice Jacobs told Brehmer he was sentencing him "on the basis you lost your self-control following the sending of the text message to your wife where the affair was revealed, rather than on the basis that you had no intention to kill or cause really serious harm".'

"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...severe neck injuries," the judge added.

"The evidence from the pathologist was that those injuries which she described as 'severe' on a scale of mild, moderate or severe resulted from the application of significant force to the neck for a period of a minimum 10 to 30 seconds and possibly longer.

"She said it was difficult to envisage a situation where a struggle in the car imparted the necessary degree of force or could explain the extent and severity of the neck injuries."

So, his defence that it was an accident during a struggle in the car has been called utter horseshit. He DID have intent, they now say. But still 10 YEARS for manslaughter? Because he lost control during a row?

It matters, not least because of the life he took - of Claire Parry, of her family now living without her - but because this is a signal to men that you can kill women, with impunity, and blame your temper/what she did/how you were provoked to lose control

And yes, I know what impunity means, but if you think 10 years (and he's been told he'll serve two-thirds before being up for parole), is ANY kind of punishment, for killing a woman with your bare hands, you're out of your mind

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