00:00 The remains of 30-year-old Samar Baker have now been formally identified after a woman
00:06 found her body on the side of the Hume Highway in Goulburn last month.
00:11 Ms Baker was reported missing by family in January 2019 after being dropped off at her
00:17 Parramatta home by her friend and was never seen again.
00:21 Her former partner, James Hasham, was arrested for her murder later that year and convicted
00:26 by a Supreme Court.
00:28 Ms Baker's family have released a statement today saying she had been taken from them
00:32 in the cruelest way and their grief over the past four and a half years had been compounded
00:37 by their inability to have a funeral and lay her to rest.
00:41 The statement said the discovery of her remains now offers a small measure of what they've
00:46 been longing for all this time.
00:48 The man who murdered her was sentenced to 24 years in jail and will be eligible for
00:53 parole in 2037.
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