Killer confessions: Undercover footage that brought Claire Holland's killer Darren Osment to justice

The killer of Claire Holland, a mother-of-four who had been missing for more than a decade, confessed to her murder in undercover police recordings.

The 32-year-old had been missing since she left a pub in Bristol during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and despite numerous appeals, no trace of her has ever been found.

Seven years later, her former partner Darren Osment, 41, a chef from Patchway near Bristol, rang 999 to say he "had her killed" but then denied any involvement and was not charged, with the chance of a conviction low.

It prompted a 20-month undercover investigation to be launched by Avon and Somerset Police, during which he confessed to the killing in front of a plain clothes police officer sixteen times.

Videos of the confessions have now been released after he was found guilty of murder by a jury's majority verdict following an eleven-week trial at Bristol Crown Court.

During the covert operation, a plainclothes officer using the name 'Paddy O'Hara' moved into a flat barely 300 yards down the road from Osment's home in 2020.

The officer befriended the killer, posing as a criminal selling stolen or fake clothes while secretly filming 1,200 hours of footage. They spent almost four hours together every day, often drinking together.

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