A person has been remanded in custody accused of the homicide of a girl who disappeared a decade in the past.
Darren Osment appeared earlier than Bristol Magistrates’ Court on Thursday accused of murdering 32-year-old Claire Holland.
The shaven headed 40-year-old, who wore a gray tracksuit, spoke solely to substantiate his identify, date of start and tackle throughout the quick listening to.
A person has now been charged with the homicide of Claire Holland who was final seen alive 10 years in the past leaving a pub in Bristol (Avon and Somerset Police/PA)
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District Judge Lynne Matthews mentioned Osment was accused of murdering Ms Holland on a date between June 5 and June 8 2012.
“This case is to go to the crown court and there will be a hearing tomorrow. You will remanded into custody,” she mentioned.
“This court has no power in any event to grant bail as I am sure you have been told by your lawyer.”
The choose remanded Osment, of Chessel Drive, Patchway, South Gloucestershire into custody and he’ll subsequent seem at Bristol Crown Court on August 5.
Members of Ms Holland’s household attended the listening to accompanied by detectives from Avon and Somerset Police.
Ms Holland, from the Lawrence Weston space of Bristol, was final seen leaving city-centre pub Seamus O’Donnell’s at 11.15pm on June 6 2012, the day after the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee weekend.
She was reported lacking a number of days later, and has not been seen or heard from since regardless of a number of mass searches and appeals for info.
