{"id":135353,"date":"2023-12-11T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=135353"},"modified":"2023-12-11T16:14:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:14:02","slug":"chef-is-found-guilty-of-murdering-mother-of-four-claire-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/chef-is-found-guilty-of-murdering-mother-of-four-claire-holland\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef is found guilty of murdering mother-of-four Claire Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors told the jury he had murdered Claire and made multiple confessions that he did it because their child was taken into care.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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Darren Osment on a body cam talking to the undercover officer on June 15, 2022<\/p>\n
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Mother-of-four Claire Holland disappeared from Bristol city centre in 2012 and neither she or her body have been found<\/p>\n
Despite a number of high-profile appeals and campaigns over the years, no trace of her has ever been found.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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’.\u00a0<\/p>\n
More to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n