2:04:37 > 2:04:40This has been described as the house of horrors.
2:04:47 > 2:04:50It's the place where a vulnerable, defenceless woman with
2:04:50 > 2:04:55serious learning difficulties was held prisoner by a sexual predator.
2:05:00 > 2:05:03He brought her to a house he ruled by fear,
2:05:03 > 2:05:07and where he had created the perfect hiding place for his victim...
2:05:08 > 2:05:11..until she eventually was rescued by the police.
2:05:13 > 2:05:18They were talking to the woman and they said, "Do you want to leave?"
2:05:18 > 2:05:21And she says, "No, because I'm scared."
2:05:21 > 2:05:25And I turned around and said to her, "Don't be scared, just go.
2:05:25 > 2:05:29"Get out of here, don't look back, just go."
2:05:29 > 2:05:33Physically, she was very thin, she was quite dirty,
2:05:33 > 2:05:36she didn't look particularly well.
2:05:36 > 2:05:39It was clear something had gone wrong.
2:05:41 > 2:05:46Held captive for years, the woman was subjected to humiliating
2:05:46 > 2:05:50and degrading treatment in the squalor of an upstairs bedroom,
2:05:50 > 2:05:52sometimes with just sweets to eat.
2:05:55 > 2:05:58She was a middle-aged, married woman, but the reality was
2:05:58 > 2:06:02she was childlike, with the mental age of a five or six-year-old.
2:06:04 > 2:06:08She didn't have the ability to communicate with others, to
2:06:08 > 2:06:12explain what was happening and try to be rescued from her predicament.
2:06:15 > 2:06:17The home, seen here on the right,
2:06:17 > 2:06:20was isolated on the edge of Craigavon.
2:06:20 > 2:06:24We've been inside the building, now under new ownership.
2:06:32 > 2:06:36This is the bedroom... It's small, ten foot by six.
2:06:36 > 2:06:39..where the woman was kept prisoner by her tormentors,
2:06:39 > 2:06:41Keith Baker and his wife, Caroline.
2:06:43 > 2:06:46She had no heating, no clean bedding. And up in the ceiling,
2:06:46 > 2:06:50the Bakers had fixed a camera so that they could film and record
2:06:50 > 2:06:54themselves raping and repeatedly sexually abusing the woman.
2:06:55 > 2:06:58The recordings are graphic,
2:06:58 > 2:07:03they are obviously recorded over a significant period of time.
2:07:03 > 2:07:05Very few people could watch it and not be affected by it.
2:07:05 > 2:07:08I certainly was affected by it.
2:07:08 > 2:07:11We have obtained some police recordings of the interviews
2:07:11 > 2:07:12with Keith Baker.
2:07:12 > 2:07:14During questioning, he said the woman,
2:07:14 > 2:07:18who can't be named for legal reasons, was a guest who was
2:07:18 > 2:07:22there of her own free will and capable of giving consent.
2:07:45 > 2:07:46This is Keith Baker.
2:07:48 > 2:07:51This is Caroline, his wife.
2:07:51 > 2:07:53They had four children together.
2:07:54 > 2:07:59And this is Mandy Highfield, his mistress for 23 years.
2:07:59 > 2:08:01She too had four children with Keith.
2:08:03 > 2:08:08Extraordinarily, all 11 of them lived together in adjoining houses.
2:08:09 > 2:08:14The same houses where the vulnerable woman was kept locked upstairs.
2:08:17 > 2:08:21She was there for a month and then I said to him,
2:08:21 > 2:08:24"Is she going back?" And he said, "No, not yet."
2:08:24 > 2:08:27And he kept telling us that she wasn't going back.
2:08:27 > 2:08:31In fact, she was locked in the home for eight years,
2:08:31 > 2:08:37until Mandy told the police about the woman she'd often tried to help.
2:08:37 > 2:08:40I'd bring her down and give her a cup of tea and something to eat.
2:08:40 > 2:08:43As soon as I heard him, I'd put her back upstairs.
2:08:43 > 2:08:45- And did she talk to you, did she say...?- Yeah, she talked to me.
2:08:45 > 2:08:51She would just say, "I like your kids, I like you."
2:08:51 > 2:08:52"I'm scared of Keith," she says.
2:08:58 > 2:09:01Keith Baker was a violent and abusive man who targeted
2:09:01 > 2:09:03vulnerable women.
2:09:03 > 2:09:06For decades, he avoided prosecution by using his physical
2:09:06 > 2:09:10strength to control those he abused.
2:09:10 > 2:09:15Despite the fact that Baker and his wife, Caroline, are now in prison,
2:09:15 > 2:09:18his abilities to manipulate those around him means that even
2:09:18 > 2:09:22today, members of his family continue to believe in him.
2:09:25 > 2:09:28Two of Keith Baker's sons agreed to speak to us.
2:09:28 > 2:09:32Malcolm is Caroline's son, Gareth is Mandy's son.
2:09:34 > 2:09:37You believe Keith and Caroline are entirely innocent?
2:09:37 > 2:09:41Yes, definitely, 100%. One million percent.
2:09:41 > 2:09:42Far from being innocent,
2:09:42 > 2:09:46Spotlight can show that Keith Baker spent decades controlling his
2:09:46 > 2:09:51family and avoiding prosecution for persistent domestic violence.
2:09:54 > 2:09:58Violence ended Keith Baker's first marriage in the '70s before
2:09:58 > 2:10:01he met and married his present wife, Caroline,
2:10:01 > 2:10:04in Belfast in the early '80s.
2:10:04 > 2:10:08Right from the start, Keith Baker was violent to Caroline.
2:10:10 > 2:10:13Spotlight has established that social services went to the
2:10:13 > 2:10:17High Court to make one of the Baker children a ward of court,
2:10:17 > 2:10:21and appoint a social worker to look after the child's interests.
2:10:21 > 2:10:24This limited Baker's access to the child.
2:10:24 > 2:10:27The social worker would actually be appointed by the master in
2:10:27 > 2:10:29the High Court, and their job, really,
2:10:29 > 2:10:33is to look after the welfare of the child who is the ward of court.
2:10:33 > 2:10:36And look out for their best interests.
2:10:36 > 2:10:39But after three years of the order, Keith and Caroline fled
2:10:39 > 2:10:43Northern Ireland, in breach of the court order.
2:10:43 > 2:10:46Years later, Baker boasted about this to Mandy.
2:10:46 > 2:10:49Yeah, he told me he had to do a runner, and I said, "Why is that?"
2:10:49 > 2:10:52And he says, "Because BLEEP is under a ward of court and we had to
2:10:52 > 2:10:57- "get out of there."- Out of where? - Out of Ireland, Northern Ireland.
2:10:57 > 2:11:00We were working with the family and they had left without any
2:11:00 > 2:11:02notification to social services.
2:11:02 > 2:11:04They were in breach of the ward of court,
2:11:04 > 2:11:08so we had a responsibility to get a message out into the system,
2:11:08 > 2:11:10and we do what's called a missing persons alert.
2:11:10 > 2:11:13That would have went out regionally within Northern Ireland,
2:11:13 > 2:11:16but also nationally across the other social services.
2:11:23 > 2:11:25It wasn't long before the alert brought
2:11:25 > 2:11:29a response from social services in Guernsey.
2:11:29 > 2:11:31The Baker family had turned up on the island,
2:11:31 > 2:11:35where the Northern Ireland court order would not apply,
2:11:35 > 2:11:38so the court order was revoked.
2:11:38 > 2:11:41This is Guernsey in the English Channel,
2:11:41 > 2:11:45closer to France, which, on a clear day, you can see just over there,
2:11:45 > 2:11:47than it is to Britain.
2:11:47 > 2:11:50And yet, even though it's a British Crown dependency,
2:11:50 > 2:11:53it's independent, it has its own government,
2:11:53 > 2:11:57its own laws and even its own chief minister.
2:11:57 > 2:12:01Now free of the court order, the Bakers began setting up home in
2:12:01 > 2:12:07Guernsey, where Keith Baker was born in 1956, one of a family of seven.
2:12:09 > 2:12:14He grew up in this street, and attended Amherst Primary School.
2:12:14 > 2:12:18This is him in the school photograph around 1967.
2:12:20 > 2:12:23David Baker is Keith's older brother.
2:12:23 > 2:12:27They both witnessed the violence inflicted on their mother by
2:12:27 > 2:12:31their father. Keith, too, had a violent temper.
2:12:31 > 2:12:34A lot of people would tell you Keith was quite a violent person,
2:12:34 > 2:12:38even in his younger days, late teens would be.
2:12:38 > 2:12:42- Would you say he had a temper?- Yeah.
2:12:42 > 2:12:46In 1989, despite being married to Caroline, Baker met
2:12:46 > 2:12:51Mandy Highfield in what was Taylors Bar, here in Guernsey.
2:12:51 > 2:12:54At first, he charmed her.
2:12:54 > 2:12:58Keith had quite a reputation, he was a ladies' man.
2:12:58 > 2:13:02You know, he had various ladies wherever he went.
2:13:02 > 2:13:06I was in a bar and he was working and
2:13:06 > 2:13:12he was walking past on his break and...we started chatting.
2:13:12 > 2:13:15He seemed to be a really nice, genuine guy, like.
2:13:15 > 2:13:20Mandy was a vulnerable woman who'd had a difficult childhood.
2:13:20 > 2:13:24She longed for some stability in her life.
2:13:26 > 2:13:31He was a nice guy and I looked at him as a dad figure in a way,
2:13:31 > 2:13:33because he wanted to look after me,
2:13:33 > 2:13:37he wanted to protect me and all this. And I liked that.
2:13:37 > 2:13:40Mandy had fallen in love.
2:13:40 > 2:13:43Keith Baker then told her he was a single parent.
2:13:44 > 2:13:47He just said that he had three children.
2:13:47 > 2:13:49Then this woman came out and I said, "Who's that?"
2:13:49 > 2:13:54And he said, "That's my live-in nanny." And I went, "Right."
2:13:54 > 2:13:59And I go, "So where's their mum?" He says, "Oh, she's not here with us any more."
2:13:59 > 2:14:03The woman Mandy met was Caroline, Keith's wife,
2:14:03 > 2:14:06not his live-in nanny.
2:14:06 > 2:14:09Mandy didn't have a clue about Keith Baker's secret life
2:14:09 > 2:14:12as a wife-beating manipulator.
2:14:12 > 2:14:14Keith was...
2:14:14 > 2:14:17He was quite a bully. You know, had no...
2:14:19 > 2:14:23I've got to be honest and say he had no respect for Caroline whatsoever.
2:14:23 > 2:14:28Caroline was in hospital quite a lot. Keith used to...
2:14:28 > 2:14:32beat her something wicked. You know, the bruises she had all over.
2:14:32 > 2:14:34Keith's always been that way to Caroline.
2:14:34 > 2:14:38For a time, Keith, Caroline and Mandy all moved into this
2:14:38 > 2:14:43council house, and the domestic abuse started against Mandy.
2:14:43 > 2:14:46He told me I wasn't allowed to talk to my family,
2:14:46 > 2:14:50I wasn't allowed to talk to people, I wasn't allowed to have friends.
2:14:50 > 2:14:53I wasn't allowed to go out without him knowing.
2:14:53 > 2:14:55What would happen if you did any of those things,
2:14:55 > 2:14:58- if you spoke to your family? - He would hit me for it.
2:14:58 > 2:15:01When I got home, he would hit me.
2:15:01 > 2:15:04Guernsey police confirmed that Keith Baker was often in trouble
2:15:04 > 2:15:07with them, but declined to give details.
2:15:12 > 2:15:16What happened with the Baker family here in Guernsey provided
2:15:16 > 2:15:21evidence of a disturbing pattern of interventions by social services.
2:15:21 > 2:15:24Keith Baker's sons remember that they had occasionally been
2:15:24 > 2:15:25taken into care.
2:15:25 > 2:15:28Social services followed the family when we went to Guernsey and
2:15:28 > 2:15:33then sort of... Things... They were constantly trying to take us away.
2:15:33 > 2:15:36They kept asking us questions and everything all the time.
2:15:41 > 2:15:45Baker's total control was such that his sons supported him
2:15:45 > 2:15:47and wanted to be with him.
2:15:47 > 2:15:53They often referred to Mandy and Caroline simply as the two mums.
2:15:53 > 2:15:55If my dad was on his own in the house and the mums had
2:15:55 > 2:15:58walked out, social services would come and sort of take them off,
2:15:58 > 2:16:00because they used to turn around and say, sort of like,
2:16:00 > 2:16:03they didn't trust the dad with two daughters.
2:16:03 > 2:16:07For a decade, Baker had beaten Caroline and Mandy with the
2:16:07 > 2:16:12impunity that came from their fear of pressing charges against him.
2:16:12 > 2:16:14However, when he was caught doing the double,
2:16:14 > 2:16:18claiming state benefits while working as a lorry driver,
2:16:18 > 2:16:21Baker decided it was time to move on again.
2:16:24 > 2:16:27The family took the ferry to Northern Ireland and found
2:16:27 > 2:16:32a place to live in Craigavon at the end of 1999.
2:16:33 > 2:16:35It took these two houses,
2:16:35 > 2:16:38numbers three and four Drumellan Mews,
2:16:38 > 2:16:41to accommodate the Baker family when they arrived.
2:16:43 > 2:16:45I thought it was a nice place, nice, quiet place,
2:16:45 > 2:16:49where everybody would be able to get settled.
2:16:49 > 2:16:52The school was only around the corner, really.
2:16:52 > 2:16:57But just as their new life began in Craigavon, the beatings resumed.
2:16:57 > 2:17:01Social services in Guernsey passed on their files about the
2:17:01 > 2:17:05domestic violence to Craigavon social services.
2:17:05 > 2:17:08Within months, there was a violent incident.
2:17:09 > 2:17:14It was February 2000, when one of the ladies did end up...
2:17:14 > 2:17:16In fact, she made a statement,
2:17:16 > 2:17:21and both ourselves and the PSNI were involved in that.
2:17:21 > 2:17:24And she did go to the women's refuge with her children.
2:17:24 > 2:17:29I remember... It was because me and Keith had an argument and
2:17:29 > 2:17:34he hit me and I just walked out the house and I took the kids with me.
2:17:34 > 2:17:38But Mandy's son, Gareth, was unhappy that his mother had taken him
2:17:38 > 2:17:40away from his father.
2:17:40 > 2:17:45All I knew was I got taken out of Drumgor Primary School
2:17:45 > 2:17:48and I didn't get to see my family for a while.
2:17:48 > 2:17:53All I could do was just cry my eyes out, cry for Dad, sort of thing.
2:17:56 > 2:18:01Keith harassed and intimidated Mandy into returning home.
2:18:01 > 2:18:04And under pressure, she withdrew her statement to the police.
2:18:06 > 2:18:09Once again, Keith Baker had escaped the courts,
2:18:09 > 2:18:11and the beatings continued.
2:18:13 > 2:18:16He'd hit me in the face, sometimes he'd give me a black eye,
2:18:16 > 2:18:21sometimes he'd punch me on the arm, kept calling me a retard and
2:18:21 > 2:18:24spastic and nobody would like me, every...
2:18:24 > 2:18:27Nobody would like me,
2:18:27 > 2:18:32"You're nothing but an ugly...bitch" and all this.
2:18:32 > 2:18:36And he knocked my confidence and my self-esteem,
2:18:36 > 2:18:39so I started believing everything he was saying.
2:18:39 > 2:18:43Did social services become involved at any stage, to your
2:18:43 > 2:18:47recollection, when you lived in Drumellan Mews?
2:18:47 > 2:18:49One of the times whenever our mums walked out,
2:18:49 > 2:18:52the only time we were allowed to see each other was if we were in
2:18:52 > 2:18:56the supervised room, and then we had to have the social worker sat with us.
2:18:56 > 2:18:59Keith knew how to heap humiliation on the two mums,
2:18:59 > 2:19:05bringing other women to the house, forcing Mandy and Caroline to hide.
2:19:05 > 2:19:07We had to sit upstairs.
2:19:07 > 2:19:10He would say to the kids, "Well, when we go out,
2:19:10 > 2:19:12"you tell your mums to come down."
2:19:13 > 2:19:15But sometimes they wouldn't go out,
2:19:15 > 2:19:18so we'd have to sit upstairs all day and all night.
2:19:18 > 2:19:21And the kids would have to bring us up something to eat and
2:19:21 > 2:19:22a cup of coffee or something.
2:19:25 > 2:19:28Social services say that in 2004,
2:19:28 > 2:19:32contact with the Baker family stopped abruptly,
2:19:32 > 2:19:35with no further reports of violence.
2:19:35 > 2:19:38Incredibly, Keith Baker had a new plan.
2:19:38 > 2:19:41To bring a third woman to live in the house.
2:19:41 > 2:19:43He called Mandy to tell her.
2:19:45 > 2:19:47He phoned me and Caroline.
2:19:47 > 2:19:50He said, "Can you get a bedroom sorted?" And we went, "Right."
2:19:50 > 2:19:53But we only had the spare room and there was no carpet,
2:19:53 > 2:19:56nothing in there. Just a bed.
2:19:56 > 2:20:00And he said, "Just put some clean duvet covers and sheets on the bed."
2:20:00 > 2:20:04Malcolm says his dad had told them he was rescuing this woman
2:20:04 > 2:20:06from an abusive husband.
2:20:06 > 2:20:10He'd picked a woman up in England when coming back from a trip.
2:20:10 > 2:20:14We were coming back from sort of one of the holidays and then BLEEP
2:20:14 > 2:20:16just got into the car and came back with us.
2:20:16 > 2:20:19Once she went into the Baker house in Craigavon,
2:20:19 > 2:20:23seen here on the right, the woman disappeared.
2:20:23 > 2:20:26In the eyes of the world, she ceased to exist.
2:20:30 > 2:20:35Keith Baker was clever enough to conceal all trace of the woman.
2:20:35 > 2:20:37He made sure that she wasn't claiming benefits,
2:20:37 > 2:20:40that she wasn't registered with a doctor or a nurse,
2:20:40 > 2:20:43and he knew that no-one in the house could help her escape because
2:20:43 > 2:20:47he controlled all the bank cards and the money.
2:20:47 > 2:20:51Keith Baker had created the perfect hiding place for the perfect
2:20:51 > 2:20:53vulnerable victim.
2:20:54 > 2:20:57When she first come over, she was treated really well,
2:20:57 > 2:21:01she was downstairs with us, watching TV with us,
2:21:01 > 2:21:03eating with us, playing with the kids.
2:21:05 > 2:21:07She would play Barbies
2:21:07 > 2:21:08with my daughter and things like that.
2:21:08 > 2:21:12I used to sit there and try and teach her to how to play Viva Pinata
2:21:12 > 2:21:15and stuff like that on the X-Box, and stuff like that, and like,
2:21:15 > 2:21:18play Monopoly and everything.
2:21:18 > 2:21:20She had the mind of about a nine-year-old child,
2:21:20 > 2:21:26so I looked at her as one of my own kids, really.
2:21:26 > 2:21:29Baker tried to paint a picture of a happy woman,
2:21:29 > 2:21:31rather than a prisoner, when he was being
2:21:31 > 2:21:33interviewed by the police.
2:21:59 > 2:22:01Baker was a very clever, manipulative man who picked
2:22:01 > 2:22:04a very vulnerable woman, who brought her into
2:22:04 > 2:22:07Northern Ireland, who kept her within his home
2:22:07 > 2:22:09for his own and his wife's very cruel pleasure.
2:22:10 > 2:22:14Keith Baker and his sons lived in Number 4.
2:22:14 > 2:22:17Caroline and Mandy and the daughters lived in Number 3.
2:22:18 > 2:22:22The woman was given the small bedroom at the top of the stairs,
2:22:22 > 2:22:23right next to the daughters.
2:22:26 > 2:22:31Things started to go wrong when the secret guest began
2:22:31 > 2:22:32going into the other rooms.
2:22:33 > 2:22:36She had a sweet tooth and she often took chocolates
2:22:36 > 2:22:38from the children's bedrooms.
2:22:38 > 2:22:42This small event changed the woman's life.
2:22:44 > 2:22:49One of the kids told Keith and Keith stuck her in a cold shower
2:22:49 > 2:22:51and made everybody watch him do it.
2:22:52 > 2:22:55We tried stopping him and he'd just push us out the way
2:22:55 > 2:22:58and said, "It's my house, I'll do what I want."
2:23:00 > 2:23:04But when she continued to take sweets, a more drastic measure
2:23:04 > 2:23:06was introduced to discourage her.
2:23:10 > 2:23:15She's carried on taking the sweets again and so Keith says,
2:23:15 > 2:23:17"Right, this is it", and he took the door
2:23:17 > 2:23:22handle off of her door and left her sitting in the room.
2:23:22 > 2:23:29So when the handle was removed from inside the bedroom she had,
2:23:29 > 2:23:31you realise that effectively made her a prisoner?
2:23:31 > 2:23:33Prisoner, yeah.
2:23:33 > 2:23:35That's what I said to him, I said, "You're locking her up
2:23:35 > 2:23:38"like an animal, she's a prisoner in that room."
2:23:38 > 2:23:42He says, "No, because we'll let her out", and he was all
2:23:42 > 2:23:45big-headed about it and happy that he was doing it all.
2:23:47 > 2:23:51In a house with three adults and eight children,
2:23:51 > 2:23:54how could this woman's imprisonment go unnoticed?
2:23:54 > 2:23:57Some of the Baker children even claim the woman was free to come
2:23:57 > 2:23:59and go from her small room.
2:24:00 > 2:24:03- BLEEP- was allowed anywhere inside the house she wanted.
2:24:03 > 2:24:05She would keep to herself most of the time.
2:24:05 > 2:24:08But she was allowed anywhere she wanted and the only one that
2:24:08 > 2:24:12ever stopped her from doing stuff like that was Mandy.
2:24:12 > 2:24:14But that's not Mandy's recollection.
2:24:14 > 2:24:17If she wanted to go to the toilet, she'd knock on the door and I'd say,
2:24:17 > 2:24:19"What do you want, love?"
2:24:19 > 2:24:21And she'd say, "Can I go to the toilet?"
2:24:21 > 2:24:22And I'd say, "Yeah, go on then."
2:24:23 > 2:24:28But sometimes the woman's knocking on the door and he'd say,
2:24:28 > 2:24:29"Just leave her".
2:24:31 > 2:24:34And I had to do what he said otherwise
2:24:34 > 2:24:35I'd have got a hiding.
2:24:37 > 2:24:41The woman endured this degrading treatment and sexual abuse
2:24:41 > 2:24:44at the hands of Keith and Caroline Baker for many years.
2:24:46 > 2:24:49Until 2012, one morning just before Christmas,
2:24:49 > 2:24:52when Keith Baker was out of the country.
2:24:52 > 2:24:55Mandy decided to bring the woman's suffering to an end.
2:24:56 > 2:25:03Em, I just had enough of all the abuse I was getting
2:25:03 > 2:25:07and she was getting it as well and I said, "I can't
2:25:07 > 2:25:08"cope with this anymore.
2:25:08 > 2:25:11"I'm not staying here and I am going to go and tell the police."
2:25:11 > 2:25:16Mandy was there when the police and social services rescued the woman.
2:25:17 > 2:25:21She says to me, "I love you" and "I love you too, my love",
2:25:21 > 2:25:24and she walked out with the police and the social worker.
2:25:27 > 2:25:31Detective Chief Inspector Claire McKernan has a clear memory
2:25:31 > 2:25:33of meeting the woman for the first time.
2:25:33 > 2:25:38I can remember her just standing there looking, you know,
2:25:38 > 2:25:41innocent, looking lost, and when I spoke to her,
2:25:41 > 2:25:43she just smiled at me.
2:25:43 > 2:25:45The police went back to Keith Baker's house
2:25:45 > 2:25:48after Christmas, when he'd returned from England.
2:25:48 > 2:25:51This time, they came with a search warrant.
2:25:52 > 2:25:56The police turned up and it wasn't just one or two policemen,
2:25:56 > 2:26:00it was loads of them come from nowhere, and they just
2:26:00 > 2:26:01knocked on the door.
2:26:01 > 2:26:03I opened the door and I said, "Hello."
2:26:06 > 2:26:08I was sleeping on the settee
2:26:08 > 2:26:11in the living room in Number 3 and the police just came
2:26:11 > 2:26:14in and woke me up and they got all of the family together,
2:26:14 > 2:26:18like in Number 4, and while we were all together that's when they went
2:26:18 > 2:26:21round the rest of the house and collected all of the laptops
2:26:21 > 2:26:24and computers, loads of DVDs and stuff like that.
2:26:29 > 2:26:32They searched everywhere in the house and took everything
2:26:32 > 2:26:35that belonged to Keith out.
2:26:35 > 2:26:39Like, everything electrical they took out, that he was using.
2:26:41 > 2:26:44In Keith's bedroom, the police came across the evidence that
2:26:44 > 2:26:47would convict him and his wife, Caroline.
2:26:47 > 2:26:50In a locked briefcase they found hundreds of photographs and hours
2:26:50 > 2:26:54of home video recordings of Keith and Caroline sexually
2:26:54 > 2:26:55abusing the woman.
2:26:55 > 2:26:57They'd filmed it themselves.
2:26:57 > 2:26:59It was prosecution gold dust.
2:27:02 > 2:27:07We have a series of photographs, we also have recorded evidence,
2:27:07 > 2:27:09some of which has voice over.
2:27:09 > 2:27:13That really was compelling evidence in this case.
2:27:13 > 2:27:15I can remember the evening we viewed it and just
2:27:15 > 2:27:19being shocked at what we'd found. Very disturbing.
2:27:20 > 2:27:24Very disturbing for the victim, obviously, and that's...
2:27:24 > 2:27:28I think that's the hardest part of it, you know,
2:27:28 > 2:27:30watching her suffer that.
2:27:30 > 2:27:33Were you surprised that you found it there because, in truth,
2:27:33 > 2:27:35he could have got rid of that evidence, couldn't he?
2:27:38 > 2:27:40I don't know. I don't know why he didn't.
2:27:40 > 2:27:43When you're in the middle of it and investigating it and you now
2:27:43 > 2:27:47have all the information, you get a very strong sense
2:27:47 > 2:27:49of control, you know.
2:27:49 > 2:27:55So Keith Baker controlled everything around him and, you know,
2:27:55 > 2:27:59I wouldn't have put it past him for him to feel that he could
2:27:59 > 2:28:01control police also.
2:28:01 > 2:28:05But Keith Baker could not control the police or explain the shocking
2:28:05 > 2:28:08content of the video recordings that he'd made.
2:28:09 > 2:28:12Mandy says she never knew about the sexual abuse of the woman
2:28:12 > 2:28:14until the police told her.
2:28:15 > 2:28:19They told me that Keith was sexually abusing her.
2:28:19 > 2:28:23I said, "I don't know" because he would never do something
2:28:23 > 2:28:26like that when I was around or when the kids were around.
2:28:26 > 2:28:30And she says, "Do you know that Caroline was involved as well?"
2:28:30 > 2:28:32And I said, "No, I didn't know that."
2:28:33 > 2:28:36The video tapes also showed the woman's physical health
2:28:36 > 2:28:39deteriorating during the years of the recordings.
2:28:41 > 2:28:44She had just one tooth and was emaciated when police
2:28:44 > 2:28:46found her, weighing just six stone.
2:29:41 > 2:29:44Interviewing the woman required much planning by the police
2:29:44 > 2:29:47with the support of a psychologist.
2:29:47 > 2:29:51We used a method of picture cards with her.
2:29:51 > 2:29:54She was given, you know, a limited number of options,
2:29:54 > 2:29:57so it was easy for her to pick.
2:29:57 > 2:30:01A psychologist, who assessed her, described her as, you know,
2:30:01 > 2:30:04very easily manipulated, very easily controlled.
2:30:04 > 2:30:07So we had to be mindful of not leading her in any way.
2:30:08 > 2:30:11The woman's evidence, together with the videos
2:30:11 > 2:30:15and photographs, changed the course of the prosecution case.
2:30:15 > 2:30:19After years of denial, Keith and Caroline Baker finally
2:30:19 > 2:30:21changed their pleas to guilty.
2:30:26 > 2:30:28Why would they do that if they were innocent?
2:30:28 > 2:30:30They weren't really given a choice.
2:30:30 > 2:30:34Like, they told my mum if she changed, if she turned
2:30:34 > 2:30:36round and changed all of her statements and said
2:30:36 > 2:30:38that it was all my dad, they wouldn't bring
2:30:38 > 2:30:40anything against her.
2:30:40 > 2:30:42That's a claim the police deny.
2:30:44 > 2:30:48At any point in this process, did the Bakers show any remorse
2:30:48 > 2:30:51for their actions or any understanding of the
2:30:51 > 2:30:53victim's mental capacity?
2:30:54 > 2:30:59No, they have not accepted the extent of her disability
2:30:59 > 2:31:03and in fact, both would say that she in fact initiated the
2:31:03 > 2:31:05contact on each of the occasions.
2:31:08 > 2:31:12Social services and the police are adamant that nothing could have
2:31:12 > 2:31:14been done to prevent the imprisonment and
2:31:14 > 2:31:15abuse of the woman.
2:31:18 > 2:31:22Mandy says she was paralysed by fear and could not have raised
2:31:22 > 2:31:24the alarm any earlier.
2:31:27 > 2:31:29You could have told the police about her.
2:31:29 > 2:31:32I could have, but if I had of, I'd have got hit for it,
2:31:32 > 2:31:35I'd have got a hiding for it. I wasn't there to...
2:31:35 > 2:31:38Nobody was allowed to know that she was there,
2:31:38 > 2:31:43and if anybody had of told them, then he would have given us a hiding
2:31:43 > 2:31:45for it, any of us, right.
2:31:46 > 2:31:50So we just had to keep our mouths quiet.
2:31:51 > 2:31:55For Mandy, telling the police about the woman locked in the house
2:31:55 > 2:31:57has cost her dearly.
2:31:59 > 2:32:03I regret doing it now, because I have lost my kids
2:32:03 > 2:32:05and they are not talking to me.
2:32:06 > 2:32:13I didn't... I don't regret telling the police on him.
2:32:13 > 2:32:17I just regret walking out the house and leaving my kids behind.
2:32:18 > 2:32:20That's the only thing I regret.
2:32:24 > 2:32:26The life of the woman that the police rescued
2:32:26 > 2:32:28has been transformed.
2:32:29 > 2:32:33When she was removed to a different location,
2:32:33 > 2:32:36she was delighted to have food, she was delighted to
2:32:36 > 2:32:38have a comfortable room.
2:32:40 > 2:32:45It's the little simple things that made such a big deal for her.
2:32:46 > 2:32:50Five years on, she is recovering from her trauma.
2:32:53 > 2:32:58She's now doing well and is moving on and has got
2:32:58 > 2:32:59closure with her life.
2:32:59 > 2:33:03Last month, Keith Baker was sentenced to 15 years,
2:33:03 > 2:33:06his wife Caroline to three.
2:33:06 > 2:33:10He'll be out in two having served seven-and-a-half years behind bars,
2:33:10 > 2:33:14less time than he kept his victim captive as his sex slave.