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00:30He possibly had got rid of the body on the farm
00:33They are now trawling every single grass tip, every single inch of this 14 acre site
00:39We were looking at the manure to see if we could find any bodily trace of Tina
00:44Unfortunately, we were unable to
00:46How did he get rid of her? Where is she now?
00:49Is that body scattered across the country?
00:52He had threatened to kill her, dispose of her and make sure that nobody would ever find her
01:01He had
01:02And
01:33Chobham in Surrey is a picturesque village known for its open green spaces and quiet residential areas.
01:41Chobham is a stunning and historic area of Surrey, specifically Surrey Heath.
01:47It dates all the way back to the Doomsday Book and 1086, which in that era it was listed as
01:53having one chapel, one church and 16 ploughs and being worth the rental value of 130 hogs.
02:01This is an impressively green area. This is an impressively wealthy area.
02:05Known as the stockbroker belt, you know, quite an affluent area just south of London.
02:11A lot of people who can afford to live around there. Only about 4,000 people live in there. Quite
02:16a green part of the country.
02:18So it's got a lot of fields, a lot of ground, a lot of outbuildings as well. So it is
02:23a vast area and quite secluded. It's a beautiful part of Surrey.
02:29This is a very low crime area, considering it's on the doorstep of London where you've got gang problems and
02:35crime.
02:36Surrey police have very few homicides every year to deal with. So Chobham police is quite a quiet posting.
02:44This is a great place to live. Rural crimes is really the local police would be bothered. And petty crimes.
02:50This is an affluent area, so there are rich people and some burglaries not unknown. Murder just doesn't bother the
02:56local police at all.
02:58Living and working on a farm in Chobham is 41-year-old Tina Baker.
03:03Tina Baker was 41. She was a lovely, bubbly person. Very independent, very set in a way.
03:09When she makes a decision, even life-changing decisions, she's settled it.
03:14Tina was, by all accounts, a very kind person. Quite independent and determined.
03:20She had an interest in animal husbandry. She was keen to keep chickens and experience farm life.
03:28She had a dream, and her mother described her dream since childhood, of owning a small farm, a little small
03:34holding.
03:35She had a particular interest in rare breeds of Japanese poultry.
03:40All her life, she loved animals, and it was her one overriding dream to have her own farm, her own
03:46small holding,
03:47where she could have chickens, all sorts of other little animals,
03:51and live her life happily with a partner, perhaps a family, and, of course, her own dog,
03:57which followed her absolutely everywhere.
04:01Tina Baker had already been married once. That marriage had ended amicably, and in the late 90s, early 2000s,
04:07she set about trying to meet someone else, and the way to do that at the time was to have
04:12a lonely heart's ad
04:13and put what you're looking for. Of course, she put her love of animals and wanted to have a farm,
04:19and that put her into the orbit of Martin Baker.
04:2350-year-old Martin Baker is an engineer and former SAS soldier from Egham.
04:30Martin Baker was also a divorcee. He was 10 years older than her, but he shared her love of animals,
04:36and it seemed to her that they had much in common, and this was a great new start for her.
04:42Martin Baker was a strong man, a capable man, and a fearless man.
04:46He had served in the SAS, the Special Air Service, created in 1941,
04:52to carry out missions for Britain beyond enemy lines.
04:56These are soldiers that are the best of the best.
05:00These aren't just soldiers that are capable of performing in combat.
05:04These are soldiers that are sent to perform in combat,
05:07sometimes often on their own or part of a mission which isn't a great expectation always of success.
05:13These are individuals that are not just trained to kill people,
05:16they are expected to kill people, and do so quietly, efficiently, with lethal accuracy.
05:24A very intelligent guy. He'd worked in engineering,
05:27and he was currently working in engineering at the time.
05:30One of the things they had in common was their love of animals and the outdoors.
05:34So when the idea came about to sort of own a farm together,
05:38and run it as a sort of business,
05:41they both fell in love with the idea as well as each other,
05:44so that was a key part of their relationship.
05:48As their relationship advances, they buy a 14-acre site,
05:52Brookville Farm on Pennypot Lane in Chobham.
05:55This is in a heavily wooded area,
05:57and it gives them the privacy and the rural life that they had so craved.
06:03They raise rare Japanese chickens,
06:06they have goats and pigs,
06:08and their dogs, which follow them everywhere.
06:11This is the rural life Tumor had always wanted.
06:13It's life on a farm, it's life with their animals.
06:17It was very quickly after the first meeting that they got married around two years.
06:23This seemed a great start to their married life,
06:26but it wasn't long before cracks started to appear.
06:30This was her second marriage and her second attempt to find happiness,
06:36but sadly it already sort of stumbled.
06:40Tina couldn't put up with Martin's controlling behaviour,
06:44his suspicions and just strange, violent behaviour towards her.
06:49Within two years of getting married, they were heading for a divorce.
06:54She is in an unhappy relationship.
06:57Martin Baker is possessive, he's aggressive, and she moves out.
07:02She comes back, the relationship breaks down again,
07:05and she leaves again.
07:09However, they own this farm together,
07:12the dream that Tina had had all her life,
07:14and, presumably, Martin had had the same vision.
07:17And they have many animals of which they share.
07:20This means that on this site,
07:22they have to come into each other's orbit all the time
07:25to look after animals.
07:26Martin wants Tina back, Tina wants to end the relationship.
07:30Not only does that mean Martin loses Tina,
07:32it also means that, potentially, he loses part of this farm.
07:38The farm would have to be sold,
07:39or he would have to find money from somewhere
07:42to extract Tina from this relationship.
07:45Martin lives in a bungalow nearby,
07:47Tina lives at her parents' house in Shepparton,
07:50and they both attend this farm regularly.
07:53Looking to move on, Tina starts seeing other people,
07:56something Martin does not take kindly to.
08:00Tina, whilst still married to Martin,
08:02although in her eyes separated,
08:04rekindles a relationship with a former school friend.
08:09Once he found out about Tina's new relationship,
08:12he set about stalking her,
08:15and there was an occasion when he turned up
08:17at the new partner's address and threw abuse at him,
08:20which was obviously very distressing for all parties concerned.
08:25So for Tina's new partner,
08:28it must have been quite intimidating.
08:30She probably had told him that he used to be in the SAS,
08:34which, you know, it's going to play on your mind
08:36if you think my partner's ex,
08:39who's still very much in her life,
08:40has got SAS training.
08:43If his resentment, his anger towards me goes on,
08:47it's kind of terrifying.
08:50Tina had confided in friends and family
08:53that she felt unsafe around Martin.
08:55Martin had stalked her whilst wearing a disguise.
08:58He followed her around town.
09:00Her father talked about an incident that he witnessed
09:04where they'd had a really bad argument.
09:07Tina had mistakenly given some of their puppies duck eggs,
09:11and the eggs were contaminated with salmonella.
09:13So the puppies died, and Martin never forgave her for that.
09:18She decided she wanted to leave
09:20and to end the relationship in a divorce.
09:24Clearly, Brookfield Farm was quite an asset that the couple had,
09:27and Tina was very keen not to let go of that asset.
09:31So she began the divorce proceedings with Martin,
09:35in mind that they would split the asset and the monies from it.
09:40The farm, which was worth about £100,000 at the time,
09:44was a sort of bone of contention.
09:46She clearly wasn't going to give it up.
09:47So the question was, you know,
09:49are we going to have to sell it?
09:50Who gets to own it?
09:52It's been quite an awkward time,
09:54because they would both have to go to the farm
09:56to feed animals and do other sort of chores on the farm.
10:00They were inevitably in each other's lives,
10:02even if they didn't want to be,
10:04or certainly Tina didn't want to be.
10:06Tensions are high between Martin and Tina.
10:10It's only a matter of time before things bubble over.
10:14Tina, up until that point,
10:16had been spending the weekend with her new partner,
10:19and on the morning of the 8th of July,
10:22she leaves his address in order to go to the farm,
10:25and she drives there in her red Vauxhall Astra.
10:28It was morning routines, as usual for her,
10:31nothing of the ordinary, certainly,
10:33and there was no concern raised by her partner.
10:37That morning, when she left her partner's address in Sunbury,
10:41was the last time she was ever seen alive.
10:46Having made no indication of not returning,
10:49suspicions around Tina's disappearance rise sharply.
10:53Where is she, and what might have happened to her?
11:10Chobham, Surrey
11:11The fact that she'd gone missing without telling any of her family and friends
11:28caused a real stir.
11:30But it was two weeks before Martin reported her missing officially to the police,
11:36and it seems a very strange lapse of time before the alert was sounded.
11:41It was very unusual that Martin took so long to report Tina missing.
11:46Her friends and family were previously aware that she'd gone missing,
11:51but that was for a short time where she was taking some time out to recollect her thoughts.
11:58But Martin would have known, of course, that she wasn't attending the farm,
12:02so the two weeks that passed without him reporting her felt really suspicious.
12:08We weren't particularly happy about the fact that it had been about two weeks
12:12between when she was last seen and when Martin Baker actually made that report.
12:18That in itself is unusual, and we have to look closely at that,
12:22because we don't know Martin, we don't know Tina.
12:25Why was that gap there? What was that used for?
12:29But ultimately, we were told that she had gone missing very briefly on one previous occasion,
12:35so that was the reason given for the delay in reporting her this time.
12:39A missing person investigation is started for Tina.
12:44Ordinarily, when a member of the public reports a loved one missing,
12:47it becomes a missing person inquiry,
12:50so that would be allocated to a local divisional resource,
12:54and local officers would be making inquiries to establish the last steps
12:58of that person reported missing.
13:02So the local officers carried out those inquiries,
13:06and after a short time, it became obvious to them
13:09that there was something not quite right with this.
13:13I was working in the major crime team in 2002,
13:16so it would have initially come in to us as a missing person report,
13:20so that was the first time we got to know about her disappearance.
13:25You sort of interview the person that makes the report,
13:28you often search the family home to make sure that they're not actually still there,
13:33and then you start to try and plot the last time that that person was seen alive,
13:37and then work back from that point.
13:40As the last known place she was going to,
13:43police decide to search the farm Tina shares with Martin.
13:48Farms are vast, and this one in particular was about 14 acres.
13:52It was quite secluded in its positioning,
13:54and it had a lot of outbuildings as well,
13:56so there was a lot to search.
14:00But also, Tina was living at home with her parents,
14:03she had a boyfriend at the time at a different address,
14:06and also you had the husband,
14:08so you had a lot of places that you would have to focus on.
14:13We have to get as much history as possible about that person,
14:16sort of leading up to the report of the disappearance,
14:18as much about their life as possible,
14:20because the more you know about their life,
14:22the more you're going to be able to find out exactly what happened to them.
14:25So, yeah, had she gone missing before?
14:27What was her state of mind?
14:29Was she happy?
14:30Was she sort of looking forward?
14:32All those sorts of things, and what did they know of her plans?
14:36We knew that she had recently split up with her husband.
14:39We knew that they were relatively acrimonious,
14:43because she'd filed for divorce.
14:46There was a farm involved, so there was money involved.
14:48She wanted to sort of hang on to the farm,
14:51because farming was one of her passions.
14:54So we found that out quite quickly.
14:57There were no indications that there was anything wrong with her herself.
15:02She didn't appear to be unhappy.
15:03Obviously, it was quite a tense time for her.
15:08But the other thing that was quite significant
15:10was she was a real animal lover,
15:12and her dog had been found abandoned.
15:14Now, people told us that would never have happened.
15:17She was besotted with the dog and also with animals,
15:20so that was very unusual.
15:23Ultimately, the investigation team are always looking
15:26to try and identify where Tina is, be that dead or alive.
15:29And as time goes on, you then do a different line of inquiry
15:33called a presumption of death.
15:36So at that point, we look at everything that she did
15:38when she was alive, and we know her to be alive,
15:41and we then start to imprint that over whether that's still happening.
15:47So the things like, is she still using her phone?
15:49Is she using her credit cards, her bank account?
15:53Has she created a completely different persona
15:56to enable herself to go missing forever?
16:01In this case, where it's an adult, it's not a child that's gone missing.
16:05They've got, you know, bank accounts and credit cards
16:07and all those sort of things.
16:08So the first thing they would do is check
16:12whether she's made any payments, whether she's bought any petrol,
16:15whether she's bought plane tickets or train tickets, etc.
16:18And there was no sign of that.
16:19There's no activity on her bank account at all.
16:22Without any indications of life,
16:25police step up the scale of investigation into Tina's disappearance.
16:31Suspicions were growing,
16:32and there were real concerns for Tina's wellbeing,
16:35hence why it was raised and brought to the attention of the homicide team.
16:41So at the point it was handed over to the homicide team,
16:44the investigation was given an operational name.
16:47Operation Sally was the name for this case.
16:49It soon became apparent that there were some real challenges with the case.
16:55First of all, we had no body.
16:57We had no weapon.
16:59We had no evidence, forensically, that anything had happened.
17:04And it was a real challenging start to the investigation for us.
17:09When somebody doesn't return home and their behaviour has changed,
17:14then it becomes a murder investigation.
17:16At that point, we are very intrusive.
17:18And a lot of it depends on, has somebody planned it?
17:21Have they planned it well?
17:23Have they had a lot of time to think about it and what they're doing?
17:26And people make mistakes, and those are the mistakes that we find.
17:29And then it helps us to build the case.
17:33Police begin looking into Martin and make some shocking discoveries.
17:39Martin was cooperative in giving his account of where he was.
17:42However, the more we dug into that account,
17:45the more it became apparent that that account wasn't particularly true.
17:51From inquiries, a couple of aspects started to look even more suspicious than first thought.
17:58For example, Martin, who, on the day that Tina went missing,
18:01said he was at work at an engineering firm some eight or nine miles away from the farm.
18:06It turned out that his phone records put him there at the farm,
18:11which is very concerning.
18:12A local resident who was tending a horse in a farm nearby also saw Martin there at the farm that
18:19day.
18:19And he seemed very agitated to get rid of her,
18:22hushering her away as if there was something else that was concerning him at the time.
18:29On the day that Tina went missing, Martin makes several calls to a local scrapyard,
18:35which is very interesting when considering her Vauxhall Astra that was never recovered.
18:40Police felt that perhaps Martin had taken the vehicle to the scrapyard to get rid of it.
18:48We looked for CCTV opportunities in the area to see if we could see the car going into the scrapyard.
18:54But ultimately, all those inquiries came up with nothing.
18:59Investigators turned to those closest to Martin for more information about him and his past.
19:06Martin's ex-wife did come in and speak to us at length about their relationship,
19:12about events that happened in that relationship and how that relationship deteriorated
19:17and ultimately why they separated.
19:20This type of evidence is always really valuable
19:22because it paints a picture of the character of the person you're dealing with
19:26and a propensity that they might have to commit this type of violent offending.
19:32Martin had previously been married and in that relationship,
19:35he had again shown elements of his controlling and coercive behaviour
19:40and also violence towards her.
19:44But he also seemed one of those husbands who treated their partners not as a partner
19:49but as a piece of property to own.
19:51He wanted to control Tina and she wasn't having it.
19:56They already know that Martin Baker is a trained killer,
19:59a soldier who was served in the SAS,
20:01and they speak to his previous partner who says Martin Baker was possessive,
20:06he was violent and was happy to be aggressive.
20:09In one instance, his previous partner explains that he'd threatened her with a knife,
20:14that he'd pushed her up against the patio
20:16and that their daughters had had to intervene to stop Martin from hurting her.
20:20They also said, most chillingly,
20:22considering Martin is now in possession of many pigs
20:24and they live on a farm,
20:26that Martin had threatened to kill her,
20:28dispose of her and make sure that nobody would ever find her.
20:31His method?
20:32To feed her to the pigs.
20:37The police were worried that maybe he'd done that.
20:40Several weeks had gone past.
20:42Had he had time to get rid of her in that period?
20:45This was a guy with SAS training as well,
20:48so he may have had all sorts of other ways
20:51to dispose of a body or get rid of evidence.
20:56Knowing about Martin's previous possessive and violent behaviour towards women,
21:00police are gravely concerned.
21:03They are now trawling every single inch of this 14-acre site
21:07with the desperately troubling information
21:10that Martin had previously made this threat
21:12of disposing of a body and feeding it to his pigs.
21:18We did speak to experts about, first and foremost,
21:21would a pig actually eat a person?
21:24And also, if that was the case,
21:26what part of the body might actually survive the digestion
21:30so that we could pick that up in a forensic search?
21:34We found out that more likely teeth would survive,
21:38so we were focused...
21:40I mean, teeth are quite small,
21:41so it was a very intensive search
21:44to see if we could find any evidence of any teeth.
21:48But as it was, we never found any teeth or evidence.
21:52We would use experienced search officers.
21:55Now, they would initially do a whole scope of the site
21:59to look at potential deposition sites,
22:01so those are sites where somebody could have buried a body.
22:05Because sometimes it's not that easy to find somewhere
22:07that somebody else won't find.
22:10So initially, the search officers would have done a grid search
22:13and then decided where the potential sites are
22:16for somebody to be able to bury a body
22:19or to not have a body found.
22:22Then you obviously had all the outbuildings.
22:25There were still animals on the farm,
22:27and the pigs were on the farm.
22:29So we were then looking at the pig excrement
22:33to see if we could find any evidence
22:35that Tina had been fed to the pigs.
22:39Also, there were sites on the farm
22:41where the pig excrement had been spread.
22:45So, again, those areas had to be checked
22:47because we were looking to see
22:49if there was any evidence that we could find.
22:52And that would have been a forensic search.
22:54That would have been done by experienced forensic officers
22:57sieving through a lot of pig dirt
23:00to try and find any evidence.
23:04So searching the manure and pig swill
23:07that was recovered from Ruffill Farm,
23:09it was brought back into builder's skips.
23:13So we had two builder's skips worth of this organic material
23:17which had to be searched.
23:20What we were looking for was traces of human remains,
23:24so teeth, hair,
23:25things that the pigs can't actually digest.
23:28They have very strong jaws,
23:29so they can break bones,
23:31and there's no problem with that.
23:32But even if they ingest the material,
23:35it does come out in the excrement.
23:38which is why we were looking at the manure
23:40to see if we could find any bodily trace of Tina.
23:44Unfortunately, we were unable to.
23:47It was a very long process to go through.
23:50With the two builder's skips,
23:52we had to take out a certain amount at a time
23:56and forensically look at that material
23:58and a large plastic piece of plastic sheeting, essentially,
24:02combing through to see with forensics team
24:05if there were any traces there.
24:07Part of the body recovery strategies,
24:10we excavated a large amount of land on the farm,
24:14looking for sites of disturbance, fires, etc.,
24:17to see if we could trace any graves within the property.
24:21Again, sadly, nothing was found.
24:24Despite not finding any signs of Tina's body
24:27at Brookfield Farm,
24:29police are still very suspicious of Martin.
24:31That suspicion will only grow with his actions that follow.
24:48Chubham, Surrey, 41-year-old Tina Baker,
24:52is last seen alive,
24:53leaving her home on the 8th of July, 2002.
24:57As part of their investigation,
25:00police conduct a thorough search of Brookfield Farm,
25:03but find no sign of her or her remains.
25:06Despite this,
25:08suspicions of her estranged husband Martin,
25:11who she co-owned the farm with,
25:13remain very high.
25:16Some months later,
25:18Baker tried to register for a DVLA licence for a BMW
25:23in his wife's maiden name.
25:26Whether he had wanted the police to think
25:29that she'd sort of driven off in this BMW,
25:32who knows?
25:34We think that was with the intent
25:35to make people believe she was still alive.
25:38He could show the documents
25:39to show that she owned this vehicle,
25:41and that's why she didn't have the red Vauxhall Astra.
25:44By this time,
25:45the police decided they need to throw everything at it.
25:48They put a £10,000 reward up,
25:52feature the case on Crimewatch.
25:54In a roundabout this time,
25:56the programme Crimewatch UK was a very popular programme
25:59shown on primetime television in Britain,
26:03and it featured a number of cases
26:05where the police were seeking for information.
26:07So they would go on the programme,
26:09they would sometimes have a sort of dramatic reconstruction,
26:12they might have a relative on there,
26:14sort of appealing.
26:16They would have the detective in charge of the case,
26:19explaining what they were looking for,
26:21and they would have a phone-in,
26:23and people would be asked to phone in,
26:25and they would be coming through
26:26to a mixture of TV workers and police themselves,
26:30who would take their calls
26:32and see if it was an important, meaningful lead.
26:36Sadly, nothing came with those inquiries.
26:40Police have searched Brookfield's farm.
26:42Forensically, they've used sniffer dogs,
26:44they've excavated part of the site.
26:45Crimewatch has put a $10,000 reward
26:48for any information about Missyntina,
26:50but they have no body,
26:52they have no specific evidence yet
26:54that she's been murdered,
26:55they have no murder weapon.
26:56All they've got is her last known location
26:58and Martin Baker's previous violence towards women.
27:04Time passes with no new leads
27:07and still no concrete evidence
27:09of Martin's involvement in Tina's disappearance.
27:13The years go past.
27:15We get to 2004 and still Martin,
27:18there's not enough evidence to charge him with the murder,
27:20but at this point,
27:22police come across a number of cannabis plants
27:24during a search of his home.
27:27In November 2004,
27:29police raid Martin Baker's Eggham bungalow.
27:32This is to do with a marijuana-growing operation.
27:36To their astonishment,
27:37they came across hundreds of cannabis plants
27:40with a street value of £16,000,
27:42£3,000 worth of cash,
27:44were all there in the bungalow
27:46so they could arrest Baker on the spot.
27:50He told them,
27:51oh, this has nothing to do with me,
27:52this is someone else who's been staying at the house,
27:54it's all to do with him,
27:55nothing to do with me.
27:57This was easily disproved
27:58because in the house was all the Baker's clothes
28:01and all his bank details.
28:03This was a straightforward, open-and-shut case
28:06and Baker was charged with possession
28:08of this huge amount of cannabis.
28:11With Baker now serving a four-year sentence
28:13for possession with intent to supply,
28:16police were happy that they knew
28:17he was behind bars for the type B
28:18and they could prepare the case properly
28:21without risk of losing him.
28:25When Martin was in prison,
28:26that obviously gave us some breathing space.
28:29We knew that he wouldn't be talking to people,
28:31interfering with witnesses,
28:32and if he was responsible for her murder,
28:34he didn't have that opportunity then
28:36to clear things up,
28:37to make things appear that he wasn't involved.
28:41They've got a free hand to, again, search the farm
28:45or go through his properties
28:47without him being able to get in the way.
28:50Now, three years after the alleged murder,
28:53investigators need to make the difficult decision
28:55of whether they have enough evidence for an arrest.
28:59In October 2005,
29:01whilst Martin was still serving his prison sentence
29:04for the cannabis matter,
29:05he was arrested by police for the murder of Tina Baker.
29:09And that arrest was based on the phone records
29:12and the witness testimony
29:14that collectively formed circumstantial evidence
29:17sufficient to justify that arrest.
29:20Ultimately, we believe that the motive
29:23for Tina's murder
29:24was that Martin wanted to control her.
29:27He didn't want her to leave.
29:29He didn't want to divorce her.
29:30And he wanted all of the farm to himself.
29:33He soon realised that Tina meant what she said.
29:37She wasn't going to back down.
29:39She wasn't going to rekindle the relationship.
29:41She'd met someone new.
29:42She was moving on, essentially.
29:46In this case in particular,
29:48we looked at her phone records.
29:49We spoke to people
29:51that she would have spoken to regularly.
29:53Also, with the rare chickens,
29:55she used to be well-known in that community.
29:58She would always go to fairs.
29:59She would be speaking to that fraternity of people.
30:02And all those things had stopped.
30:04But we didn't have a body.
30:05That makes things a little more difficult
30:08because with no body,
30:09we don't have the forensic material
30:11that's linked to that.
30:12We also didn't have any evidence
30:15of when and how this had happened.
30:17So the case was a circumstantial case
30:19from that perspective.
30:21The fact that Martin didn't report Tina missing
30:24for two weeks
30:25after she actually was last seen
30:27might indicate
30:28that this wasn't a premeditated murder,
30:31that in fact,
30:32he needed time after the murder
30:34to clear up things
30:35so that those two weeks were spent
30:37dealing with Tina's body
30:39and the vehicle.
30:40When you meet somebody,
30:43you might be suspicious of them,
30:45but it's not enough
30:45to nominate them as a suspect.
30:47So you do all this work
30:49with checking records,
30:50checking accounts,
30:51and it's really when you arrest them
30:53and you interview
30:54that you're expected
30:55to expose that information to them
30:57to see what they have to say about it.
31:00So it's not until that point
31:02that you would sort of show your hand
31:03as to what you have
31:05that undermines their account.
31:07And in this case,
31:09it was quite evident
31:09that Martin had given some thought
31:11to making the police believe
31:13that she was still around.
31:15He re-registered
31:16one of his friends, BMW,
31:18in Tina's maiden name of Doyle
31:20and then presented that to the police
31:22as evidence that she was still alive.
31:25A trial date is set,
31:27but convincing a jury of Martin's guilt,
31:30based on circumstantial evidence,
31:32will be an uphill battle.
31:34In the trial at the Old Bailey,
31:36November 2006,
31:38the jury was presented
31:39quite an unusual case.
31:41Here you've got no crime scene,
31:43you've got no murder weapon,
31:44you haven't got a body.
31:45All they have
31:46is the police investigation
31:47and the very specific motives
31:49and evidence
31:50against Martin Baker.
31:53It certainly used to be the case
31:55during the 19th
31:56and early to mid 20th century,
31:58right up until the sort of 70s, 80s.
32:01It was very rare
32:02for cases to be brought
32:03without a body.
32:05It's extremely rare.
32:07Nowadays,
32:08more common to do it
32:09because the police
32:10can prove in other ways,
32:12forensically,
32:13that there was a body,
32:14there was a crime scene, etc.
32:15but it's still quite rare.
32:18It helps a defence case.
32:20They can say,
32:21she might still be out there.
32:22You know,
32:22you haven't definitively got a body.
32:24So they could put forward
32:25a red herring
32:26that she's decided to disappear
32:28and put him in trouble
32:30by disappearing.
32:32It proves a bit of a problem
32:34for the police
32:34and the prosecution.
32:37Prosecutor Mark Dennis
32:38told the jury
32:39that there is no body
32:40in this case,
32:41there's no evidence
32:42that would go with a body,
32:44no weapon,
32:45no scene of crime,
32:46no forensic evidence,
32:47but I can assure you
32:49that this is a very compelling
32:51circumstantial case
32:52that you can finish this trial
32:54and you'll be confident
32:55that Martin Baker
32:57murdered his wife.
32:58The case evolved around
33:00the past violent conduct
33:02shown by Baker
33:04to his first wife,
33:05the threats,
33:06the stalking
33:06when Tina decided
33:08to leave Baker.
33:09his fears
33:10that he would lose the farm,
33:12so the financial motive
33:14for wanting to see
33:15the back of his wife
33:16and, of course,
33:17the lies that he had told
33:18throughout the police investigation.
33:20But the key witness
33:21was unquestionably
33:22the first wife
33:23and the moment
33:24she told the jury
33:25about the abuse
33:26that she had suffered
33:27at the hands of her ex-husband,
33:29I think their minds
33:30were made up.
33:32Whenever you go to trial,
33:33you are nervous.
33:34You obviously have a jury
33:35that you have to convince
33:37that the evidence
33:37is overwhelming
33:39and they're happy
33:40to convict
33:41and we never speak
33:41to juries
33:42so we don't know
33:43what they think
33:44and what they say
33:44about the evidence
33:45that we present.
33:46So you're nervous
33:47every stage
33:48and you are not
33:49entirely sure
33:50if other things
33:51will be brought up
33:51during that trial.
33:53We were very nervous
33:54and we were hopeful
33:55that we had enough evidence
33:56to be able to present
33:58to a jury
33:58to convince them
33:59that he was responsible.
34:02The prosecution case
34:03was that she had been murdered
34:05and we didn't have a body
34:06so we did all the investigation
34:08and inquiries
34:09to show that she was
34:10no longer alive
34:11and those are what we call
34:12presumption of death inquiries.
34:16So nothing we did
34:17actually showed her
34:18to be alive.
34:19She hadn't created
34:20a new identity for herself.
34:22She wasn't actually seen
34:24in any of the places
34:25she would always go to
34:26and these were passions of Tina
34:27so all these things
34:29sort of fitted together
34:30and it sort of creates
34:31a bigger picture
34:32that you set up
34:33with the evidence
34:34that you have
34:35to show that she is
34:36no longer alive.
34:38You also had
34:39the circumstantial evidence
34:41where we undermined
34:42Martin's account.
34:43The fact that he said
34:44he was at work
34:45well he wasn't at work
34:46our phone records
34:47show that he was
34:48at the farm.
34:50The witness that says
34:51he's at the farm
34:52the ex-wife that says
34:54he threatened to kill her
34:55before went and feed her
34:56to the pigs
34:57all this evidence
34:58would have been presented
34:59to a jury
34:59and it was for them
35:00to make up their mind
35:01because we never
35:02recovered her body.
35:05Will the circumstantial evidence
35:07be enough for the jury
35:08to convict Martin Baker
35:09for Tina's murder
35:11or will he get away with it?
35:27November, 2006.
35:29Martin Baker is on trial
35:31at the Old Bailey
35:32for the murder of his wife
35:33Tina Baker.
35:35Tina disappeared in June 2005
35:37after leaving their shared farm
35:40in Chobham, Surrey.
35:42Circumstantial evidence
35:43suggests he killed her
35:44and fed her body
35:45to livestock.
35:47But without a body
35:48the prosecution is concerned
35:49the jury may not
35:51find him guilty.
35:54Despite the missing pieces
35:55the prosecution's evidence
35:56was compelling.
35:58Not only did they have evidence
35:59from his previous partner
36:00that he was capable
36:01of using violence
36:02towards women
36:03he had this very specific
36:04and descriptive threat
36:05of making a body disappear
36:07and also they had
36:09the information
36:09that Tina was certain
36:11about a divorce
36:12she wanted money
36:13from the property
36:14and that she would
36:15be leaving Martin
36:15and not only that
36:16potentially taking
36:17the case home with her.
36:20On the 13th of November
36:222006
36:23the jury reached a verdict.
36:26So in November 2006
36:28at the Old Bailey
36:30Martin was convicted
36:31of Tina's murder.
36:33and in itself
36:34that's quite
36:35a remarkable achievement.
36:36There aren't many cases
36:37where we're able
36:38to secure conviction
36:39when we don't have a body.
36:42I think the most remarkable
36:44bit about the conviction
36:45is it was achieved
36:46without a body
36:48being discovered
36:49and in fact
36:50I believe that
36:51it is the only occasion
36:52when Surrey police
36:53have secured
36:54a no body conviction
36:55for murder.
36:57Some of these pieces
36:58together don't sound
36:59like they would be enough
37:00to get a conviction
37:01but when the prosecution
37:03put them all together
37:05with the narrative
37:06it was enough.
37:07They had the witness
37:09who'd seen him
37:09on the day
37:10they knew that the car
37:12had gone missing
37:12and they had this evidence
37:14that he'd been in touch
37:15with somebody
37:15at a scrapyard.
37:17They'd had his previous
37:19comments to his ex-wife
37:21about feeding her
37:22to the pigs
37:23but it all together
37:24it was enough
37:25to convince the jury.
37:27Martin Baker denied
37:28any involvement
37:29and his defence
37:31pointed out the fact
37:31that there was no crime scene
37:33there was no body
37:34and there was no
37:34specific evidence
37:36to say that Martin
37:37had definitely killed her.
37:39The jury disagreed
37:41and the judge
37:42sentenced him
37:43to 14 years
37:44saying that on that
37:45fateful July day
37:46he lay in wait
37:47for her
37:48determined to kill her
37:49to protect his investment
37:50in the farm
37:51and to prevent her
37:52leaving him.
37:54He murdered her
37:55and quickly disposed
37:56of her body
37:57and her red Vauxhall Astra.
37:59This was
38:00the judge said
38:01a planned crime
38:02a motivated crime
38:04and a truly
38:04cold-blooded crime.
38:07Prosecutors
38:08and Tina's
38:09loved ones
38:09are relieved
38:10that a conviction
38:11was secured
38:12on circumstantial evidence
38:14but they continue
38:15to hope
38:16Martin will reveal
38:17her burial site
38:18so she can finally
38:20be laid to rest.
38:23In 2008
38:24he appealed
38:25but that was
38:26thrown out.
38:282020
38:29he became
38:30eligible for parole.
38:32Martin
38:32would have been
38:33due for release
38:34at the first
38:35possible time
38:36in 2020
38:36but that
38:37hasn't happened
38:39and it's
38:40to do with
38:40the fact
38:40that he hasn't
38:41helped police
38:42with their inquiries
38:43in finding Tina's body
38:46and this relates
38:47to Helen's law
38:48which means
38:49if they're not
38:49cooperating with police
38:50and helping
38:51the recovery
38:52they can use
38:52that during
38:53the decision
38:54whether or not
38:55to give parole
38:56and clearly
38:57in this case
38:58they've decided
38:58not to.
39:00Helen's law
39:01which was brought
39:02in a couple
39:03of years ago
39:03due to the campaigning
39:04of the mother
39:05of Helen McCourt
39:07whose body
39:08was never found
39:09her killer
39:10was allowed out
39:11despite never
39:13saying where
39:13the body was
39:14and she managed
39:15to convince
39:15the government
39:16at the time
39:17to bring in
39:18this law
39:18which while it
39:20doesn't prevent
39:20somebody coming out
39:22it means that
39:22the parole board
39:23have to take
39:24into account
39:25whether that person
39:26has helped
39:27the police
39:28to find the body
39:29if they haven't
39:31it's very much
39:32a negative factor
39:34and it's sort of
39:34likely to count
39:35against that person
39:36being released
39:40In August 2020
39:41as a result
39:42of new information
39:43police together
39:44with some army
39:45services
39:46dug up an area
39:47of land
39:47in Priest Lane
39:48Risley
39:49which is about
39:49three miles or so
39:51from Brookfield Farm
39:54Unfortunately
39:55nothing was found
39:56during the course
39:56of those searches
39:58Police continue
39:59to look for Tina
40:00today
40:01but sadly
40:02the location
40:03of her body
40:03remains a mystery
40:05To me
40:06the bitter end
40:07and to this day
40:08Baker refuses
40:09to admit
40:10that he even
40:11murdered his wife
40:11let alone
40:12what he did
40:13with the remains
40:15This causes
40:16endless anguish
40:17for Tina's family
40:18and friends
40:20Despite being
40:21visited by police
40:22on a number
40:23of occasions
40:23he seems determined
40:25to take his secret
40:26to the grave
40:28Tina Baker's case
40:29is an absolute triumph
40:30for the police
40:31and for the prosecution
40:32service
40:33bringing home
40:34a guilty verdict
40:34to murder
40:35in a case
40:36with no body
40:37and such a lack
40:38of forensic evidence
40:39At the time
40:40of Tina's death
40:41there were only
40:4225 cases
40:43of a no body
40:44murder conviction
40:45in the whole
40:46of English canon
40:47dating back centuries
40:49It is an extraordinary
40:50achievement
40:51and Surrey police
40:52and the prosecution
40:53team headed by
40:54Mark Dennis
40:54deserve the greatest credit
40:57This case does
40:58stand out to me
40:59because of the fact
41:00that it's a no body
41:01case
41:02and one of the
41:03more challenging
41:03investigations
41:04to work with
41:05with no body
41:07no forensics
41:08no weapons
41:11So the fact
41:12that we got
41:12the case over the line
41:14and up to proof
41:16just based on
41:17circumstantial evidence
41:18is real testament
41:20to the amount
41:20of work
41:21that went in
41:23Also the fact
41:24that we believe
41:25that he may
41:25have fed her
41:26to the pigs
41:28on the farm
41:28It's not every day
41:30in a homicide case
41:31that you find
41:32those circumstances
41:35I think this is
41:36a really complex
41:37and difficult case
41:39because we never
41:39had her body
41:40and no body murders
41:42are actually
41:42quite rare
41:43I think in Surrey police
41:45this is possibly
41:45the only one
41:46that we've got
41:47to conviction
41:47so it was
41:48a complicated
41:49investigation
41:50and very difficult
41:51as well
41:54Despite having
41:55a conviction
41:55Tina's family
41:57and friends
41:58are left
41:58without much solace
42:01It's difficult
42:02to imagine
42:02being in the footsteps
42:04of a family
42:05who have lost
42:06a loved one
42:07The pain
42:09gets worse
42:10when somebody
42:12who committed
42:12that crime
42:13isn't unwilling
42:14to say
42:15where the body is
42:16so you could
42:17get closure
42:18you could have
42:19a proper funeral
42:20and lay that person
42:21to rest
42:22Without that
42:23you always wonder
42:24how did he get rid
42:26of her
42:26where is she now
42:27is that body
42:28sort of scattered
42:29across the country
42:31It must be
42:32extremely galling
42:34Nobody actually
42:35saw what happened
42:36on that day
42:37People knew of Tina
42:39they knew of Martin
42:40they knew about
42:40Brookfield Farm
42:41but they didn't hear
42:42or see anything
42:45Whilst Martin Baker
42:46was sent away
42:46for 14 years
42:48on that day
42:48the media might
42:49talk about closure
42:50but her family
42:51are left without
42:51having a body
42:52to bury
42:53or without knowing
42:54truly horribly
42:55what happened
42:56to their beloved
42:57Tina
42:58Tina devoted her life
43:00to the looking
43:00after of animals
43:01This was somebody
43:03that was compassionate
43:03kind and gentle
43:05This was someone
43:05who put in
43:06all the hard yards
43:07of looking after
43:08animals on a farm
43:09and surrounding
43:09herself with nature
43:11This was somebody
43:12that believed
43:13that she'd met
43:13someone that would
43:14truly love
43:15and protect her
43:15in Martin
43:16and when she found
43:17that wasn't the case
43:18she tried to leave
43:19but Martin
43:19wouldn't let her
43:21She'd met someone else
43:22and fell in love
43:23with them
43:23and was looking
43:24to start a new life
43:25with her beloved dog
43:27and her beloved animals
43:29Martin Baker
43:30took that away from her
43:31and took that away
43:32from her in the most
43:33deliberate
43:33and horrible way
43:35The tragic disappearance
43:37of Tina Baker
43:38left the surrounding
43:40community in complete shock
43:41but years later
43:43she's still remembered
43:44for her warmth
43:45Tina Baker
43:47struck me as
43:48a determined
43:49and independent lady
43:51She clearly had
43:54ambitions
43:55and an interest
43:56in animals
43:57She was a kind person
43:59by all accounts
44:00and I think
44:01it's really tragic
44:02that just by
44:04getting on with her life
44:05she fell foul
44:06of Martin Baker's
44:08jealousy and greed
44:10I think it's a real surprise
44:12to people in Chobham
44:13when something like this
44:14happens
44:14because it is probably
44:15one of the safest places
44:17in the UK
44:19Tina had realised her dream
44:21which is why it's so sad
44:22She'd always wanted
44:23to have a farm
44:24She's well known
44:25for a real love of animals
44:26so she got this
44:28and I think that's what
44:29initially attracted her
44:30to Martin
44:30the fact they were going
44:31to have this farm together
44:34But she was described
44:36as a bubbly
44:36lovely person
44:37but she was quite
44:38determined and confident
44:40because she knew
44:40when to leave
44:41a marriage that just
44:42wasn't working
44:43and she was adamant
44:44she wasn't returning
44:48To me Martin Baker
44:49was a violent
44:51narcissistic person
44:52who was set
44:53on his own greed
44:55and ambition
44:55and would step on anybody
44:57to get what he wanted
44:59from life
45:02In my dealings
45:03with Martin Baker
45:04I found him
45:05to be quite an arrogant man
45:06He was very difficult
45:09unnecessarily so
45:10and very cold
45:12considering
45:13if he were
45:14an innocent man
45:15the investigation
45:16was to try
45:17and find out
45:18what had happened
45:19to Tina
45:19and if he
45:20as I say
45:21were an innocent man
45:22it would be
45:23in his interest
45:23to assist us
45:25and help find Tina
45:28Tina Baker's case
45:29is extremely sad
45:31she was 41
45:32when she died
45:33she was not
45:34an old woman
45:34still had plenty
45:36of years in her
45:37who knows
45:37what she had
45:38ahead of her
45:39and she had just
45:41found a new partner
45:42and they could have
45:43lived happily
45:44ever after
45:44but her life
45:46was taken away
45:46from her
45:47and there's no
45:48justice in that
45:49there's no fairness
45:49in that
45:50it is perhaps
45:52good
45:53that at least
45:54he got
45:54his comeuppance
45:56Martin Baker
45:56didn't get away
45:57with it
45:58but that
45:59is little
46:00compensation
46:00for her family
46:06I don't know