Once again my Cambridgeshire village finds itself in the media spotlight following the 33-year sentencing of Rekha Kumari-Baker for murdering her two daughters to “wreak havoc†upon her former husband, David Baker.
I have just walked by the murder house 
round the corner from my house and where Davina, 16, and Jasmine, 13, were stabbed with two kitchen knives as they slept at their home.
The area was totally deserted, and the once boarded up house which holds the secret of the bloodbath that took place there is now lived in by another young family. A neighbour told me it had been bought by a property developer, refurbished and sold.
“I could never live in a house like that where such a terrible thing had taken place,†she said.
Could you? I certainly couldn’t either.
The tragedy of this is that Rekha’s lovely daughters could have been her best friends during
the personal turmoil she suffered. Instead she took her rage out on them and slaughtered them.
The teenage girls expected only love and protection from their mother. But she became a monster and showed them no mercy – and neither did she deserve any from the court.
I’ve seen many revenge/punishment murders like this reported, all committed by fathers, and the one that springs to mind is John Hogan, who tried to kill his children by jumping off a balcony on holiday in crete, killing one of his children, his 6 yr old son. Sky reported that he spent 16 months in a psychiatric hospital and “As he has no conviction of any kind against him, he will therefore be free to travel the world, if he chooses, in search of Mia, the daughter he tried to kill.”
Why is it that men who murder are sympathised with and women are villified? The children are just as dead.
In my humble opinion no-one who murders a child, any child, deserves our sympathy.
After being in the circumstances where through no fault of my own , my boys and I were almost homeless I could live in any house regardless of what had happened there …… if it meant I had a house for my children….
I never knew you lived where that happened..such a waste of lives of wonderful girls..
I could not live in there, I suppose you would know what had happened before you moved in. It would be hard to live day to day, knowing of the tragedy!
An awful happening, Ellee.
what sort of a monster is that?
After reading the opinions of Prof Kevin Browne, that have no basis in fact or reason, it seems that men who murder do it out of love!
Presumably women are just heartless monsters.
That is truly a tragic and horrid tale. What would drive anybody to such a thing? Nor could I live in the house, either.
This story is really saddening, the girls are really happy in their picture. I hope the mother thought of their good moments together before doing that crime. I never imagined a mother can kill her own children.
I couldn’t live there either.
I wouldnt be confortable living in such place either.