Mass murderer Malcolm George Baker dies behind bars in palliative care, aged 76

A mass murderer who shot dead seven people including an unborn baby on the NSW Central Coast in 1992 has died in jail.

Malcolm Baker killed 6 people at Terrigal on the NSW Central Coast in October 1992.

A mass murderer who shot dead seven people including an unborn baby on the NSW Central Coast in 1992 has died in jail.

Malcolm George Baker, 76, died in palliative care on Saturday while serving six life sentences for a killing spree known as The Central Coast massacre.

Baker’s horrific crime took place on 27 October when he went on a rampage in Terrigal, Bateau Bay and Wyong killing seven people including an unborn baby.

Baker used a double-barrel shotgun to smash the window to his ex-girlfriend Kerry Gannon and her sister Lisa Gannon’s Terrigal apartment.

A friend of the two women, Christopher Gall, 22, who was visiting the house was the first person shot, suffering a gunshot wound to the face. Baker then shot Kerry dead.

Mass killer Malcolm Baker has died aged 76. killed 6 people at Terrigal on the NSW Central Coast in October 1992. The victims included his son David, his former girlfriend Kerry Gannon, her sister Lisa and father Thomas, his friend Ross Smith and Smith's girlfriend Leslie Reid.

Victim Kerry Gannon.

Minutes later, he killed Lisa who was eight months pregnant. Her unborn child could not be saved. Their father, Thomas Gannon, 43, who was staying with the sisters, was found dead in the street.

Baker then drove to his son David’s home in Bateau Bay, and shot him in the back of the head and left his body in the backyard. Not done on his killing spree, Baker then went to the home of Ross Smith, 35, and Leslie Read, 25, in Wyong. He shot and critically injured Read, who survived, then killed Smith who was in the bathtub at the time.

Lisa Gannon was killed alongside her sister. She was eight months pregnant.

Her father Thomas Gannon was also murdered by Baker.

Police said Baker killed Smith over a business deal gone wrong several years earlier.

At 11pm that night, Baker walked into Toukley police station and handed over his shotgun, telling police where they would find a trail of bodies.

He was charged with six counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. He was serving six life sentenced when he died.

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