Prosecutors say Darren Osment has told several people he had killed Claire Holland or paid someone else to.
A pub chef murdered his ex-partner after blaming her for their child being taken into care, a jury has been told.
Andrew Langdon KC, prosecuting, told the jury: “Once you have heard all the evidence you will be sure that she died at the hands of this defendant, Darren Osment.“In the 11 years since he killed her, he has been carrying the burden of knowing what he did to her.Why your home is full of ladybirds at the moment
When their child was a few weeks old, police were called to the home they shared in Bradley Stoke following allegations of alcohol-fuelled domestic violence.One social worker told police after the child was taken into care: “Darren was blaming Claire for the removal of the child due to the fact that she had called the police a few days before our visit and the police had attended their home address.
There was little contact between Ms Holland and the defendant until the week of her disappearance, the court heard.They had exchanged phone calls and Ms Holland told people in the pub on the night she vanished she was meeting Osment after he finished work as a chef at a pub in Clifton. And he is alleged to have told another friend: “I paid someone £500 to have the mother of my child executed.”
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