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Chobham, Surrey, 2002.

A woman goes missing under suspicious circumstances.

It was morning routines as usual for her, nothing of the ordinary certainly.

She was heading off to feed the animals at Brookfield Farm.

This is the last time she's seen her life.

A missing person inquiry has started, but it's no easy task.

Police launched Operation Sally.

He possibly had got rid of the body on the farm.

They are now trawling every single grass tip, every single inch of this 14-acre

site. We were looking at the manure to see if we could find any bodily trace of

Tina. Unfortunately, we were unable to.

How did he get rid of her? Where is she now?

Is that body scattered across the country?

He had threatened to kill her, dispose of her and make sure that nobody would

ever find her.

Chobham in Surrey is a picturesque village known for its open green spaces

and quiet residential areas.

Chobham is a stunning and historic area of Surrey, specifically Surrey Heath. It

dates all the way back to the Doomsday Book and 1086, which in that era it was

listed as having one chapel, one church and 16 ploughs and being worth... The

rental value of 130 hogs. This is an impressively green area.

This is an impressively wealthy area.

Known as the stockbroker belt, you know, quite an affluent area just south of

London. A lot of people who can afford to live around there.

Only about 4,000 people live in there. Quite a green part of the country.

So it's got a lot of fields, a lot of ground, a lot of outbuildings as well.

So it is a vast area and quite secluded, and it's a beautiful part of Surrey.

This is a very low-crime area, considering it's on the doorstep of

London, where you've got gang problems and crime.

Surrey police have very few homicides every year to deal with, so Chobham

Police is quite a quiet posting.

This is a great place to live.

Rural crimes is really the local police would be bothered, and petty crimes.

It is an affluent area, so there are rich people, and so burglary is not

unknown.

Murder just doesn't bother the local police at all.

Living and working on a farm in Chobham is 41-year-old Tina Baker.

Tina Baker was 41. She was a lovely, bobbly person, very independent, very

set in her ways. Once she makes a decision, even life-changing decisions,

she's settled it.

Tina was...

By all accounts, a very kind person, quite independent and determined.

She had an interest in animal husbandry. She was keen to keep chickens and

experienced farm life.

She had a dream, and her mother described her dream since childhood, of

owning a small farm, a little smallholding.

She had a particular interest in rare breeds of Japanese poultry.

All her life she loved animals and it was her one overriding dream to have her

own farm, her own smallholding where she could have chickens, all sorts of other

little animals and live her life happily with a partner, perhaps a family and of

course her own dog which followed her absolutely everywhere.

Tina Baker had already been married once. That marriage had ended amicably.

And in the late 90s, early 2000s, she set about trying to meet someone else.

And the way to do that at the time was to have a lonely hearts ad and put what

you're looking for. Of course, she put her love of animals and wanted to have a

farm. And that put her into the orbit of Martin Baker.

50-year-old Martin Baker is an engineer and former SAS soldier from Egham.

Martin Baker was also a divorcee.

He was 10 years older than her, but he shared her love of animals and it seemed

to her that they had much in common and this was a great new start for her.

Martin Baker was a strong man, a capable man and a fearless man. He had served in

the SAS, the Special Air Service, created in 1941 to carry out missions

for Britain beyond enemy lines.

These are soldiers that are the best of the best.

These aren't just soldiers that are capable of performing in combat.

These are soldiers that are sent to perform in combat, sometimes often on

their own or part of a mission which isn't a great expectation always of

success. These are individuals that are not just trained to kill people, they

are expected to kill people and do so quietly, efficiently, with lethal

accuracy.

Very intelligent guy. He'd worked in engineering, and he was currently

working in engineering at the time.

One of the things they had in common was their love of animals and the outdoors.

So when the idea came about to sort of own a farm together and run it as a sort

of business, they both fell in love with the idea as well as each other. So that

was a key part of their relationship.

As their relationship advances, they buy a 14-acre site, Brookfield Farm, on

Pennypot Lane in Chobham. This is in a heavily wooded area, and it gives them

the privacy and the rural life that they had so craved.

They raise rare Japanese chickens, they have goats and pigs, and their dogs,

which follow them everywhere.

This is the rural life Tina had always wanted. It's life on a farm, it's life

with her animals.

It was very quickly after the first meeting that they got married, around

two years.

This seemed a great start to their married life, but it wasn't long before

cracks started to appear.

This was her second marriage and her second attempt to find happiness, but

sadly it had already sort of stumbled.

Tina couldn't put up with Martin's controlling behaviour, his suspicions

and just... strange, violent behaviour towards her.

Within two years of getting married, they were heading for a divorce.

She is in an unhappy relationship.

Martin Baker is possessive, he's aggressive, and she moves out. She comes

back, the relationship breaks down again, and she leaves again.

However, they own this farm together, the dream that Tina had had all her

life, and presumably Martin had had the same vision.

And they have many animals of which they share.

This means that on this site, they have to come into each other's orbit all the

time to look after animals.

Martin wants Tina back. Tina wants to end the relationship.

Not only does that mean Martin loses Tina, it also means that potentially he

loses part of this farm.

The farm would have to be sold, or he would have to find money from somewhere

to extract Tina from this relationship.

Martin lives in a bungalow nearby, Tina lives at her parents' house in

Shepparton, and they both attend this farm regularly.

Looking to move on, Tina starts seeing other people, something Martin does not

take kindly to.

Tina, while still married to Martin, although in her eyes separated,

rekindles a relationship with a former school friend.

Once he found out about Tina's new relationship, he set about stalking her

and there was an occasion when he turned up at the new partner's address and

threw abuse at him, which was obviously very distressing for all parties

concerned.

So for Tina's new partner, it must have been quite intimidating. She probably

had told him that he used to be in the SAS.

which, you know, it's going to play on your mind if you think my partner's ex,

who's still very much in her life, has got SAS training.

If his resentment, his anger towards me goes on, it's kind of terrifying.

Tina had confided in friends and family that she felt unsafe around Martin.

Martin had stalked her whilst wearing a disguise. He followed her around town.

Her father talked about an incident that he witnessed where they'd had a really

bad argument.

Tina had mistakenly given some of their puppies duck eggs and the eggs were

contaminated with salmonella. So the puppies died and Martin never forgave

her for that.

She decided she wanted to leave and to end the relationship in a divorce.

Clearly, Brookfield Farm was quite an asset that the couple had and Tina was

very keen not to let go of that asset.

So she began the divorce proceedings with Martin in mind that they would

split the asset and the monies from it.

The farm, which was worth about £100,000 at the time, was a sort of bone of

contention. She clearly wasn't going to give it up. So the question is, you

know, are we going to have to sell it? Who gets to own it?

It must have been quite an awkward time because they would both have to go to

the farm to feed animals and do other sort of chores on the farm. They were

inevitably in each other's lives, even if they didn't want to be, or certainly

Tina didn't want to be.

Tensions are high between Martin and Tina.

It's only a matter of time before things bubble over.

Tina, up until that point, had been spending the weekend with her new

partner. And on the morning of the 8th of July, she leaves his address in order

to go to the farm. And she drives there in her red Vauxhall Astra.

It was morning routines as usual for her, nothing of the ordinary certainly,

and there was no concern raised by her partner.

That morning, when she left her partner's address in Sunbury, was the

last time she was ever seen alive.

Having made no indication of not returning, suspicions around Tina's

disappearance rise sharply. Where is she, and what might have happened to

her?

Chobham, Surrey, on 8 July 2002 41-year-old Tina Baker leaves her home

to go to the farm she co-owns with her estranged husband, Martin Baker.

She's never seen again.

The fact that she'd gone missing without telling any of her family and friends

caused a real stir.

But it was two weeks before Martin reported her missing officially to the

police, and it seems a very strange lapse of time before the alert was

sounded.

It was very unusual that Martin took so long to report Tina missing. Her friends

and family were previously aware that she'd gone missing, but that was for a

short time where she was taking some time out to recollect her thoughts.

But Martin would have known, of course, that she wasn't attending the farm, so

the two weeks that passed without him reporting her felt really suspicious.

We weren't particularly happy about the fact that it had been about two weeks

between when she was last seen and when Martin Baker actually made that report.

That in itself is unusual and we have to look closely at that because we don't

know Martin, we don't know Tina. Why was that gap there? What was that used for?

But ultimately, we were told that she had gone missing very briefly on one

previous occasion, so that was the reason given for the delay in reporting

her this time.

A missing person investigation is started for Tina.

Ordinarily when a member of the public reports a loved one missing it becomes a

missing person inquiry so that would be allocated to a local divisional resource

and local officers would be making inquiries to establish the last steps of

that person reported missing.

So the local officers carried out those inquiries and after a short time it

became obvious to them that there was something not quite right with this.

I was working in the major crime team in 2002, so it would have initially come

into us as a missing person report.

So that was the first time we got to know about her disappearance.

You sort of interview the person that makes the report. You often search the

family home to make sure that they're not actually still there. And then you

start to try and plot the last time that that person was seen alive and then work

back from that point.

As the last known place she was going to, police decide to search the farm

Tina shares with Martin.

Farms are vast and this one in particular was about 14 acres. It was

quite secluded in its positioning and it had a lot of outbuildings as well, so

there was a lot to search.

But also, Tina was living at home with her parents. She had a boyfriend at the

time at a different address, and also you had the husband, so you had a lot of

places that you would have to focus on.

We have to get as much history as possible about that person, leading up

to the report of the disappearance, as much about their life as possible,

because the more you know about their life, the more you're going to be able

to find out exactly what happened to them. So, yeah, had she gone missing

before? What was her state of mind?

Was she happy?

Was she looking forward?

All those sorts of things. And what did they know of her plans?

We knew that she had recently split up with her husband. We knew that they were

relatively acrimonious because she'd filed for divorce.

There was a farm involved, so there was money involved.

She wanted to sort of hang on to the farm because farming was one of her

passions. So we found that out quite quickly.

There were no indications that there was anything wrong with her herself. She

didn't appear to be unhappy.

Obviously, it was quite a tense time for her.

But the other thing that was quite significant was she was a real animal

lover and her dog had been found abandoned.

Now, people told us that would never have happened. She was besotted with the

dog and also with animals, so that was very unusual.

Ultimately, the investigation team are always looking to try and identify where

Tina is, be that dead or alive.

And as time goes on, you then do a different line of inquiry called a

presumption of death.

So at that point, we look at everything that she did when she was alive and we

know her to be alive, and we then start to imprint that over whether that's

still happening.

So the things like, is she still using her phone? Is she using her credit

cards, her bank account?

as she created a completely different persona to enable herself to go missing

forever.

In this case, where it's an adult, it's not a child that's gone missing. They've

got, you know, bank accounts and credit cards and all those sort of things. So

the first thing they would do is check whether she's made any payments, whether

she's bought any petrol, whether she's bought plane tickets or train tickets,

etc. And there was no sign of that. There was no activity on her bank

account at all.

Without any indications of life, police step up the scale of investigation into

Tina's disappearance.

Suspicions were growing and there were real concerns for Tina's well-being,

hence why it was raised and brought to the attention of the homicide team.

So at the point it was handed over to the homicide team, the investigation was

given an operational name. Operation Sally was the name for this case.

It soon became apparent that there were some real challenges with the case.

First of all, we had no body.

We had no weapon. We had no evidence forensically that anything had happened.

And it was a real challenging start to the investigation for us.

When somebody doesn't return home and their behaviour has changed, then it

becomes a murder investigation.

At that point, we are very intrusive. And a lot of it depends on, has somebody

planned it? Have they planned it well? Have they had a lot of time to think

about it and what they're doing? And people make mistakes, and those are the

mistakes that we find. And then it helps us to build the case.

Police begin looking into Martin and make some shocking discoveries.

Martin was cooperative in giving his account of where he was.

However, the more we dug into that account, the more it became apparent

that that account wasn't particularly true.

From inquiries, a couple of aspects started to look even more suspicious

than first thought. For example, Martin, who on the day that Tina went missing,

said he was at work at an engineering firm some eight or nine miles away from

the farm.

It turned out that his phone records put him there at the farm, which is very

concerning. A local resident who was tending a horse in a farm nearby also

saw Martin there at the farm that day, and he seemed very agitated to get rid

of her, hushering her away as if there was something else that was concerning

him at the time.

On the day that Tina went missing, Martin makes several calls to a local

scrapyard. which is very interesting when considering her Vauxhall Astra that

was never recovered.

Police felt that perhaps Martin had taken the vehicle to the scrapyard to

get rid of it.

We looked for CCTV opportunities in the area to see if we could see the car

going into the scrapyard, but ultimately all those inquiries came up with

nothing.

Investigators turned to those closest to Martin.

for more information about him and his past.

Martin's ex-wife did come in and speak to us at length about their

relationship, about events that happened in that relationship and how that

relationship deteriorated and ultimately why they separated.

This type of evidence is always really valuable because it paints a picture of

the character of the person you're dealing with and a propensity that they

might have to commit this type of violent offending.

Martin had previously been married and in that relationship he had again shown

elements of his controlling and coercive behaviour and also violence towards her.

But he also seemed one of those husbands who treated their partners not as a

partner but as a piece of property to own. He wanted to control Tina and she

wasn't having it.

They already know that Martin Baker is a trained killer, a soldier who has served

in the SAS, and they speak to his previous partner, who says Martin Baker

was possessive, he was violent, and was happy to be aggressive.

In one instance, his previous partner explains that he threatened her with a

knife, that he'd pushed her up against the patio, and that their daughters had

had to intervene to stop Martin from hurting her.

They also said, most chillingly, considering Martin is now in possession

of many pigs and they live on a farm, that Martin had threatened to kill her,

dispose of her and make sure that nobody would ever find her. His method?

To feed her to the pigs.

The police were worried that maybe he'd done that. Several weeks had gone past.

Had he had time to get rid of her in that period?

This was a guy with SAS training as well, so he may have had all sorts of

other ways to dispose of a body or get rid of evidence.

Knowing about Martin's previous possessive and violent behaviour towards

women, police are gravely concerned.

They are now trawling every single inch of this 14-acre site with the

desperately troubling information that Martin had previously made this threat

of... disposing of a body and feeding it to his pigs.

We did speak to experts about, first and foremost, would a pig actually eat a

person? And also, if that was the case, what part of the body might actually

survive the digestion so that we could pick that up in a forensic search?

We found out that, more likely, teeth would survive.

So we were focused, and teeth are quite small, so it was a very intensive search

to see if we could find any evidence of any teeth.

But as it was, we never found any teeth or evidence.

We would use experience as search officers. Now, they would initially do a

whole scope of the site to look at potential deposition sites, so those are

sites where somebody could have buried a body.

Because sometimes it's not that easy to find somewhere that somebody else won't

find.

So initially, the search officers would have done a grid search and then decided

where the potential sites are for somebody to be able to bury a body or to

not have a body found.

Then you obviously had all the outbuildings. There were still animals

on the farm and the pigs were on the farm. So we were then looking at the pig

excrement to see if we could find any evidence that Tina had been fed to the

pigs.

Also, there were sites on the farm where the pig excrement had been spread.

So again, those areas had to be checked because we were looking to see if there

was any evidence that we could find.

And that would have been a forensic search. That would have been done by

experienced forensic officers sieving through a lot of pig dirt to try and

find any evidence.

So searching the manure and pig swirl that was recovered from Brookfield Farm,

it was brought back in two builder's skips.

So we had two builder's skips worth of this organic material, which had to be

searched.

What we were looking for was traces of human remains, so teeth, hair, things

that the pigs can't actually digest.

They have very strong jaws, so they can break bones, and there's no problem with

that. But even if they ingest the material, it does come out in the

excrement.

Which is why we were looking at the manure to see if we could find any

bodily trace of Tina.

Unfortunately, we were unable to.

It was a very long process to go through. With the two builder skips, we

had to take out a certain amount at a time and forensically look at that

material on a large plastic piece of plastic sheeting, essentially, combing

through to see with forensics team if there were any traces there.

part of the body recovery strategies we excavated a large amount of land on the

farm looking for sites of disturbance fires etc to see if we could trace any

graves within the property again sadly nothing was found despite not finding

any signs of tina's body at brookfield farm police are still very suspicious of

martin that suspicion will only grow with his actions that follow

Chubham, Surrey. 41-year-old Tina Baker is last seen alive, leaving her home

on 8 July 2002.

As part of their investigation, police conduct a thorough search of Brookfield

Farm, but find no sign of her or her remains.

Despite this, suspicions of her estranged husband Martin, who she co

-owned the farm with, remain very high.

Some months later, Baker tried to register for a DVLA licence for a BMW in

his wife's maiden name.

Whether he had wanted the police to think that she'd sort of driven off in

this BMW, who knows?

We think that was with the intent to make people believe she was still alive.

He could show the documents to show that she owned this vehicle and that's why

she didn't have the red Vauxhall Astra.

By this time, the police decided they need to throw everything at it. They put

a £10,000 reward up.

Feature the case on Crime Watch.

In around about this time, the programme Crime Watch UK was a very popular

programme shown on primetime television in Britain, and it featured a number of

cases where the police were seeking for information, so they would go on the

programme, they would sometimes have a sort of dramatic reconstruction.

They might have a relative on there, sort of appealing.

They would have the detective in charge of the case explaining what they were

looking for and they would have a phone in and people would be asked to phone in

and they would be coming through to a mixture of TV workers and police

themselves who would take their calls and see if it was an important,

meaningful lead.

Sadly, nothing came of those inquiries.

Police have searched Brookfield's farm.

Forensically, they've used sniffer dogs, they've excavated part of the site.

Crime Watch has put a $10,000 reward for any information about missing Tina, but

they have no body, they have no specific evidence yet that she's been murdered,

they have no murder weapon. All they've got is her last known location and

Martin Baker's previous violence towards women.

Time passes with no new leads and still no concrete evidence of Martin's

involvement in Tina's disappearance.

The years go past, we get to 2004 and still Martin, there's not enough

evidence to charge him with the murder but at this point police come across a

number of cannabis plants during a search of his home.

In November 2004, police raid Martin Baker's Egham bungalow. This is to do

with a marijuana growing operation.

To their astonishment, they came across hundreds of cannabis plants with a

street value of £16,000, £3,000 worth of cash were all there in the bungalow.

So they could arrest Baker on the spot.

He told them, oh, this has nothing to do with me. This is someone else who's been

staying at the house. It's all to do with him, nothing to do with me.

This was easily disproved because in the house was all Baker's clothes and all

his bank details.

This was a straightforward, open and shut case, and Baker was charged with

possession of this huge amount of cannabis.

With Baker now serving a four-year sentence for possession with intent to

supply, police were happy that they knew he was behind bars for the type B, and

they could prepare the case properly without risk of losing him.

When Martin was in prison, that obviously gave us some breathing space.

We knew that he wouldn't be talking to people, interfering with witnesses, and

if he was responsible for her murder, he didn't have that opportunity then to

clear things up, to make things appear that he wasn't involved.

They've got a free hand to, again, search the farm or go through his

properties without him being able to get in the way.

Now, three years after the alleged murder, investigators need to make the

difficult decision of whether they have enough evidence for an arrest.

In October 2005, whilst Martin was still serving his prison sentence for the

cannabis matter, he was arrested by police for the murder of Tina Baker.

And that arrest was based on the phone records and the witness testimony that

collectively formed circumstantial evidence sufficient to justify that

arrest.

Ultimately, we believe that the motive for Tina's murder was that Martin wanted

to control her. He didn't want her to leave.

He didn't want to divorce her. And he wanted all of the farm to himself.

He soon realized that Tina meant what she said. She wasn't going to back down.

She wasn't going to rekindle the relationship.

She'd met someone new. She was moving on, essentially.

In this case in particular, we looked at her phone records.

We spoke to people that she would have spoken to regularly.

Also with the rare chickens, she used to be well known in that community.

She would always go to fairs. She would be speaking to that fraternity of

people. And all those things had stopped. But we didn't have a body.

That makes things a little more difficult because with no body, we don't

have the forensic material that's linked to that. We also didn't have any

evidence of when and how this had happened. So the case was a

circumstantial case from that perspective.

The fact that Martin didn't report Tina missing for two weeks after...

she actually was last seen might indicate that this wasn't a premeditated

murder, that in fact he needed time after the murder to clear up things so

that those two weeks were spent dealing with Tina's body and the vehicle.

When you meet somebody, you might be suspicious of them, but it's not enough

to nominate them as a suspect. So you do all this work with checking records,

checking accounts, and it's really when you arrest them and you interview that

you're expected to expose that information to them to see what they

have to say about it.

So it's not until that point that you would show your hand as to what you have

that undermines their account.

And in this case, it was quite evident that Martin had given some thought to

making the police believe that she was still around.

He re-registered one of his friends' BMW in Tina's maiden name of Doyle and then

presented that to the police as evidence that she was still alive.

A trial date is set, but convincing a jury of Martin's guilt, based on

circumstantial evidence, will be an uphill battle.

In the trial at the Old Bailey, November 2006, the jury was presented quite an

unusual case.

Here you've got no crime scene, you've got no murder weapon, you haven't got a

body. All they have is the police investigation and the very specific

motives and evidence against Martin Baker.

It certainly used to be the case during the 19th and early to mid-20th century,

right up until the sort of 70s, 80s.

It was very rare for cases to be brought without a body.

It's extremely rare.

Nowadays, more common to do it because the police can prove in other ways,

forensically, that there was a body, there was a crime scene, et cetera.

But it's still quite rare.

It helps a defence case. They can say she might still be out there. You know,

you haven't definitively got a body, so they could put forward a red herring

that she's decided to disappear and put him in trouble by disappearing.

It proved a bit of a problem for the police and the prosecution.

Prosecutor Mark Dennis told the jury that there is no body in this case.

There's no evidence that would go with a body, no weapon, no scene of crime.

No forensic evidence, but I can assure you that this is a very compelling,

circumstantial case. You can finish this trial and you'll be confident that

Martin Baker murdered his wife.

The case revolved around the past violent conduct shown by Baker to his

first wife, the threats, the stalking when Tina decided to leave Baker, his

fears. that he would lose the farm, so the financial motive for wanting to see

the back of his wife, and, of course, the lies that he had told throughout the

police investigation.

But the key witness was unquestionably the first wife, and the moment she told

the jury about the abuse that she had suffered at the hands of her ex-husband,

I think their minds were made up.

Whenever you go to trial, you are nervous. You obviously have a jury that

you have to convince that the evidence is overwhelming and they're happy to

convict. And we never speak to juries, so we don't know what they think and

what they say about the evidence that we present. So you're nervous every stage

and you are not entirely sure if other things will be brought up during that

trial.

We were very nervous and we were hopeful that we had enough evidence to be able

to present to a jury to convince them that he was responsible.

The prosecution case was that she had been murdered and we didn't have a body.

So we did all the investigation and inquiries to show that she was no longer

alive. And those are what we call presumption of death inquiries.

So nothing we did actually showed her to be alive. She hadn't created a new

identity for herself.

She wasn't actually seen in any of the places she would always go to. And these

were passions of Tina.

So all these things sort of fitted together. And it sort of creates a

bigger picture that you set up with the evidence that you have to show that she

is no longer alive.

You also had the circumstantial evidence where we undermined Martin's account.

The fact that he said he was at work. Well, he wasn't at work. Our phone

records show that he was at the farm.

The witness that says he's at the farm, the ex-wife that says he threatened to

kill her before, went and feed her to the pigs. All this evidence would have

been presented to a jury and it was for them to make up their mind because we

never recovered her body.

Will the circumstantial evidence be enough for the jury to convict Martin

Baker for Tina's murder? Or will he get away with it?

November 2006.

Martin Baker is on trial at the Old Bailey for the murder of his wife, Tina

Baker. Tina disappeared in June 2005 after leaving their shared farm in

Chobham, Surrey.

Circumstantial evidence suggests he killed her and fed her body to

livestock. But without a body, the prosecution is concerned the jury may

not find him guilty.

Despite the missing pieces, the prosecution's evidence was compelling.

Not only did they have evidence from his previous partner that he was capable of

using violence towards women, he had this very specific and descriptive

threat of making a body disappear, and also they had the information that Tina

was certain about a divorce, she wanted money from the property, and that she

would be leaving Martin, and not only that, potentially taking the case home

with her.

On the 13th of November 2006, the jury reached a verdict.

So in November 2006, at the Old Bailey, Martin was convicted of Tina's murder.

And in itself, that's quite a remarkable achievement. There aren't many cases

where we're able to secure conviction when we don't have a body.

I think the most remarkable bit about the conviction is it was achieved

without... a body being discovered.

And in fact, I believe that it is the only occasion when Surrey Police have

secured a no-body conviction for murder.

Some of these pieces together don't sound like they would be enough to get a

conviction. But when the prosecution put them all together with the narrative, it

was enough.

They had the witness who'd seen him on the day.

They knew that the car had gone missing and they had this evidence that he'd

been in touch with somebody at a scrapyard.

They'd had his previous comments to his ex-wife about feeding her to the pigs.

Put it all together, it was enough to convince the jury.

Martin Baker denied any involvement, and his defence pointed out the fact that

there was no crime scene, there was no body, and there was no specific evidence

to say that Martin had definitely killed her.

The jury disagreed and the judge sentenced him to 14 years, saying that

on that fateful July day he lay in wait for her, determined to kill her to

protect his investment in the farm and to prevent her leaving him.

He murdered her and quickly disposed of her body and her red Vauxhall Astra.

This was, the judge said, a planned crime, a motivated crime and a truly

cold-blooded crime.

prosecutors and tina's loved ones are relieved that a conviction was secured

on circumstantial evidence but they continue to hope martin will reveal her

burial site so she can finally be laid to rest in two thousand eight

he appealed but that was thrown out twenty twenty he became eligible for

parole

Martin would have been due for release at the first possible time in 2020, but

that hasn't happened.

And it's to do with the fact that he hasn't helped police with their

inquiries in finding Tina's body.

And this relates to Helen's law, which means if they're not cooperating with

the police and helping the recovery, they can use that during the decision

whether or not to give parole.

And clearly in this case, they've decided not to.

Helen's Law, which was brought in a couple of years ago due to the

campaigning of the mother of Helen McCourt, whose body was never found, her

killer was allowed out despite never saying where the body was, and she

managed to convince the government at the time to bring in this law, which,

while it doesn't prevent somebody coming out, it means that the parole board have

to take into account whether that person has helped the police to find the body.

If they haven't, it's very much a negative factor and sort of likely to

count against that person being released.

In August 2020, as a result of new information, police, together with some

army services, dug up an area of land in Priest Lane, Risley, which is about

three miles or so from Brookfield Farm.

Unfortunately, nothing was found during the course of those searches.

Police continue to look for Tina today, but sadly, the location of her body

remains a mystery.

To the bitter end and to this day, Baker refuses to admit that he even murdered

his wife, let alone what he did with the remains.

This causes endless anguish for Tina's family and friends.

Despite being visited by police on a number of occasions, he seems determined

to take his secret to the grave.

Tina Baker's case is an absolute triumph for the police and for the prosecution

service, bringing home a guilty verdict to murder in a case with no body and

such a lack of forensic evidence.

At the time of Tina's death, there were only 25 cases of a no-body murder

conviction in the whole of English canon, dating back centuries.

It is an extraordinary achievement, and Surrey Police and the prosecution team,

headed by Mark Dennis, deserve the greatest credit.

This case does stand out to me because of the fact that it's a no-body case and

one of the more challenging investigations to work with, with no

body, no forensics, no weapons.

So the fact that we got the case over the line and up to proof just based on

circumstantial evidence is real testament to the amount of work that

went in.

to the pigs on the farm it's not every day in a homicide case that you find

those circumstances i think this is a really complex and difficult case

because we never had her body and no body murders are actually quite rare i

think in surrey police this is possibly the only one that we've got to

conviction so it was a complicated investigation and very difficult as well

despite having a conviction

Tina's family and friends are left without much solace.

It's difficult to imagine being in the footsteps of a family who have lost a

loved one.

The pain gets worse when somebody who committed that crime is unwilling to

say where the body is.

So you could get closure, you could have a proper funeral and lay that person to

rest. Without that, you always wonder, how did he get rid of her? Where is she

now? Is that body sort of scattered across the country?

It must be extremely galling.

Nobody actually saw what happened on that day. People knew of Tina, they knew

of Martin, they knew about Brookfield Farm, but they didn't hear or see

anything.

Whilst Martin Baker was sent away for 14 years on that day... The media might

talk about closure, but her family are left without having a body to bury or

without knowing truly horribly what happened to their beloved Tina.

Tina devoted her life to the looking after of animals.

This was somebody that was compassionate, kind and gentle. This was

someone who put in all the hard yards of looking after animals on a farm and

surrounding herself with nature.

This was somebody that believed that she'd met someone that would truly love

and protect her in Martin and when she found that wasn't the case she tried to

leave but Martin wouldn't let her.

She'd met someone else and fell in love with them and was looking to start a new

life with her beloved dog and her beloved animals.

Martin Baker took that away from her and took that away from her in the most

deliberate and horrible way.

The tragic disappearance of Tina Baker.

left the surrounding community in complete shock.

But years later, she's still remembered for her warmth.

Tina Baker struck me as a determined and independent lady.

She clearly had ambitions and an interest in animals. She was a kind

person, by all accounts.

And I think it's really tragic that just by getting on with her life she fell

foul of Martin Baker's jealousy and greed.

I think it's a real surprise to people in Chobham when something like this

happens because it is probably one of the safest places in the UK.

Tina had realised her dream, which is why it's so sad. She'd always wanted to

have a farm. She's well known for a real love of animals, so she got this, and I

think that's what initially attracted her to Martin, the fact they were going

to have this farm together.

But she was described as a bubbly, lovely person, but she was quite

determined and confident because she knew when to leave a marriage that just

wasn't working, and she was adamant she wasn't returning.

To me, Martin Baker was a violent, narcissistic person who was set on his

own greed and ambition and would step on anybody to get what he wanted from life.

In my dealings with Martin Baker, I found him to be quite an arrogant man.

He was very difficult, unnecessarily so, and very cold.

Considering if he were an innocent man, The investigation was to try and find

out what had happened to Tina.

And if he, as I say, were an innocent man, it would be in his interests to

assist us and help find Tina.

Tina Baker's case is extremely sad.

She was 41 when she died. She was not an old woman.

Still had plenty of years in her. Who knows what she had ahead of her.

And she had just found a new partner and they could have lived happily ever

after. But her life was taken away from her, and there's no justice in that.

There's no fairness in that.

It is perhaps good that at least he got his comeuppance. Martin Baker didn't get

away with it, but that is little compensation for her family.