Ex-top terror cop cancelled house insurance & emptied bank accounts before killing himself by destroying home in blaze
TERROR cop Malcolm Baker cancelled his family’s house insurance before killing himself by destroying the home.
The ex-Scotland Yard superintendent, 60, also emptied bank accounts he held with his wife Francesca Onody, 50.
She and their teenage daughter were away when a blaze sparked a huge gas explosion on September 14.
Former Met Det Chief Insp Mick Neville said: “This is a tragic end for a man who had protected society during his career as a police officer.
"But it also seems like an awful and wicked act of spite to his partner and children.”
Incinerated remains were found in the ruins of the thatched cottage in Exmoor National Park.
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DNA tests were being carried out to confirm they belong to Mr Baker, who worked on the 2006 poisoning of KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko, and the 7/7 London terror attack.
His family are understood to have been temporarily housed.
Avon and Somerset Police have referred the incident to the police watchdog.
