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Killer chef got away with murder for 11 years - until he was snared by his best friend

Source: Avon and Somerset Police

A killer got away with murdering a mother-of-four for 11 years - until he was snared by an undercover policeman who pretended to be his best friend.

Such was Darren Osment’s bond with plainclothes officer ‘Paddy O’Hara’, he even vowed to make him his best man, while Avon and Somerset Police collected covert recordings to finally bring Claire Holland’s murderer to justice.

Ms Holland, 32, was last seen leaving a pub in on the evening of 6 June 2012, after she left an evening with friends at Seamus O’Donnell’s

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