Pic shows: CCTV of Claire Holland in Asda on the last day she was seen alive in 2012

in July 2019, Osment called 999 while drunk and confessed to police that he had arranged her murder. Later, when sober, he retracted his admission.


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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