A man who killed a “wonderful young mother” after she left him 13 years ago has been sentenced. Trevor Baker, 53, who's serving his sentence at HMP Warren Hill, appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday (Friday, May 31) where he was hit with a minimum of 20 years behind bars for Carolyn Kemp's murder. This will be less the time served since his sentencing for attempted murder in 2010, meaning that Baker will serve another five years and eight months in prison.
Carolyn Kemp was 34 at the time, when Baker left her paralysed from the waist down and with a severe brain injury, after attacking her at his home on Walmer Close, Romford, on November 25, 2009. Baker, who was in prison for Carolyn's attempted murder, pleaded guilty to murder yesterday after she died from her injuries nearly 13 years after the attack. Carolyn had left Baker six months before the attack.
READ MORE: Gang of men spray chemicals on man after chasing him from Bromley pub in daytime attack Baker didn't take it well and attacked Carolyn. At the time he pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was sentenced to 16 years in prison, to serve a minimum of eight years. Sadly Carolyn died in September 2022 from aspiration pneumonia, with a post-mortem finding that, had she not had the brain injuries, she would have survived.
Specialist pathologists concluded that if Carolyn had not suffered the horrific brain injuries in 2009, she would have survived aspiration pneumonia. Baker was charged with murder on December 5 2023.
