An undercover police officer has described how he posed as a hardened criminal for almost two years to win the trust of a suspected killer in the hope he would open up about the disappearance of his former partner.
The officer, working under the pseudonym Paddy O’Hara, took the suspect, Darren Osment, on fake gun smuggling runs and once showed him a fictitious press clipping of a killing in Northern Ireland that he implied he was involved in, a jury at Bristol crown court heard.
