Pic shows: Killer Darren Osment
seen here confessing to the murder to undercover cop who posed as his friend in June 2022


A jury has convicted pub chef Darren Osment of murder following his confessions to a covert operative in a 20-month sting operation.

Osment, 42, denied killing his former partner, Claire Holland, who vanished on a night out in Bristol on 6 June 2012. Her body has never been found.

It took the jury 13 hours to convict the father-of-two of her murder following a seven-week trial at Bristol Crown Court.

The court was played some of the 1,200 hours of covert recordings made by covert officer 'Paddy' over his 20-month deployment.

Claire, a 32-year-old mother-of-four, vanished after being seen leaving her local pub in Bristol. Her case was treated as a missing persons inquiry.

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