BREAKING NEWS Chef is found guilty of murdering mother-of-four Claire Holland who vanished without a trace after leaving a pub more than a decade ago
- Darren Osment, 41, made multiple confessions about killing his ex-partner
A pub chef has been found guilty of murdering his ex-partner Claire Holland, who vanished without a trace after leaving a pub more than a decade ago.
Darren Osment, 41, is facing life in prison for killing the mother-of-four, who has not been seen since leaving a pub in Bristol at the time of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
After an eight week trial, a jury returned a majority guilty verdict of 10-2 following six full days of deliberations. Osment will be sentenced on December 20.
Prosecutors told the jury he had murdered Claire and made multiple confessions that he did it because their child was taken into care.
She was 32 at the time and had said she had planned to meet with Osment on the night of June 6, 2012 after a drinking session at the Seamus O’Donnell pub.
Darren Osment on a body cam talking to the undercover officer on June 15, 2022
Mother-of-four Claire Holland disappeared from Bristol city centre in 2012 and neither she or her body have been found
Despite a number of high-profile appeals and campaigns over the years, no trace of her has ever been found.
The jury heard Osment had ‘confessed’ on a number of occasions during the years to ‘unburden’ himself as he struggled to live with his ‘horrific’ actions.
In one confession to police call-handlers, he said he had strangled her as ‘no c***, no stupid b***h is going to keep me away from my boy’.
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