Police dig in hunt for woman murdered by SAS husband in 2002 PROBE SITE

Mystery clue leads to search in village near home

POLICE and Army search teams are digging in a village for the body of a woman believed to have been killed by her SAS husband 18 years ago.

Investigators were seen yesterday digging up an area in Bisley, Surrey, looking for the remains of Tina Baker, who disappeared in 2002 aged 41.

Three years later her husband, former SAS soldier Martin Gerald Baker, was arrested and charged with her murder.

He was sentenced to life with a minimum 14 years after a trial in 2006.

During his trial, the Old Bailey heard that Baker had feared he would lose their 14-acre farm in Surrey after Mrs Baker walked out on him.

After she disappeared a month later, detectives discovered that her bank account was left untouched.

Her dog was found abandoned.

Mrs Baker was last seen leaving her lover’s house to feed the animals at Brookfield Farm, which she co-owned with her husband, in July 2002.

But police for months treated the case as a missing person inquiry. It was not until October of that year that the investigation became a murder probe.

Baker was later described in court as controlling and jealous.

His first wife told investigators that Baker threatened he could make her permanently disappear.

He had told her chillingly: “I would cut you up and feed you to the pigs.”

Detectives feared he had used that method to dispose of his wife’s remains. But forensic officers analysed pigswill and manure on the farm, near the village of Chobham, and found no evidence that Mrs Baker’s remains had been disposed of as animal feed.

The Daily Mirror understands that Baker is still serving time in prison.

Police have not revealed the origin of the latest development in the case.

Det Insp Chris Rambour, from the Surrey and Sussex

Major Crime Team, said of

Priest Lane Farm in Bisley Tina Baker has not been found

Martin Baker was jailed