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    Chef who admitted killing ex-partner to undercover officer to be sentenced

    by Jordan Reynolds Dec 20, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: PA Media

    A pub chef who was caught on camera confessing to killing his ex-partner to an undercover police officer is to be sentenced.

    Claire Holland was last seen leaving a pub in Bristol on the evening of June 6 2012.

    In July 2019, Darren Osment called 999 and confessed to police saying “I had her killed”, but he was released under investigation after later denying it in an interview.

    Due to a lack of supporting evidence, in 2020 an undercover officer was deployed to befriend Osment – an operation

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