Officer posing as criminal spent hundreds of hours with Darren Osment to discover truth about Claire Holland’s disappearance
It sounds like something out of a cold case thriller: an undercover police officer poses as a hardened criminal and befriends a suspected murderer. The suspect comes to regard the officer as his best friend and eventually confesses.
During a trial at Bristol crown court, a jury was given a rare insight into a true-life relationship between an undercover police officer who went by the fake name Paddy O’Hara and Darren Osment, who was suspected of killing his former partner Claire Holland.
