Malcolm George Baker (born 13 August 1947) is an Australian

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from Terrigal, New South Wales, currently serving six sentences of

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for the shooting massacre of seven people, including an unborn child, in

Terrigal Terrigal is a coastal town in the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, located east of Gosford on the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the local government area. History Terrigal was first settled in 1826 by European Settler John Gray, ...

Bateau Bay Bateau Bay is a suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the local government area. Bateau Bay lies in the area known as Darkinjung to Indigenous Australians. "Bateau" is French for "boat." The subur ...

and Wyong on the evening of 27 October 1992 (known as the

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Shootings

The shootings started at 9:12 p.m. at the

apartment of his ex-girlfriend Kerry Gannon and her younger sister Lisa Gannon. Baker used his shotgun to smash the front window. Twenty-two-year-old Christopher Gall, a friend of the sisters, was the first person shot, suffering a gunshot wound to the face. Baker then entered the house and shot Gannon dead. Moving through the house he shot dead Lisa, who was eight months pregnant; later efforts to save her unborn baby failed. Their father, Thomas Gannon, 43, who had been visiting for a few days, was found dead in the street. Baker then drove to the resort of

, where he arrived about ten minutes later, at the home of his 27-year-old son David. Baker shot his son through the back of his head. His body was discovered in the back yard of the home he shared with his wife and baby. Baker then went to the home of Ross Smith, 35, and Leslie Read, 25, in Wyong, 15 kilometres north of Bateau Bay. Arriving there shortly before 10 p.m., he shot and critically injured Read, then finding Smith in the bathtub shot and killed him instantly. Read died two hours later in hospital. Smith and Baker had had a confrontation about two years prior, over a business deal gone sour. At 11.00 p.m., Baker walked into

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police station, surrendered, and handed over a

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Remington

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. He was charged with six counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.

Incarceration

Baker was one of the first six inmates of Goulburn Gaol's High Risk Management Unit upon its creation in 2001.

References

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