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Jury retires in Constance Marten and Mark Gordon retrial
LONDON, ENGLAND, JUL 7 – Constance Marten and Mark Gordon face charges for neglect leading to their newborn's death after taking her off-grid to avoid care, with a jury now deciding their fate.
- In March 2023, a retrial commenced at London's Old Bailey involving Constance Marten, aged 38, and her partner Mark Gordon, 51, who face charges related to the manslaughter of their newborn daughter Victoria, who died in a tent on the South Downs.
- The trial follows Victoria's death in January 2023 after the couple fled authorities, went off grid to keep her, and were arrested on February 27 with four other children previously taken into care.
- Victoria's decomposed body was found days after the arrest in a shopping bag inside a disused allotment shed near Brighton, and the prosecution alleges death from hypothermia or smothering in a flimsy tent.
- Marten testified that she lost consciousness and fell asleep while holding Victoria in the tent, whereas Gordon argued that Victoria's death could have been prevented if the police had not searched for them following their car catching fire on a motorway near Bolton.
- Jurors started considering their verdicts after the defendants rejected charges of manslaughter by gross negligence and failing to prevent Victoria’s death, despite having previously been found guilty of concealing the birth and obstructing justice.
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The Independent (US)Jury retires in retrial of Constance Marten and partner over baby death
The aristocrat, 38, and her partner Mark Gordon, a 51-year-old convicted rapist, took their fifth baby ‘off grid’ to stop her being taken into care
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Constance Marten baby death jury sent out to consider verdict
A jury has begun deliberating on verdicts in the retrial of wealthy aristocrat Constance Marten and her partner for the manslaughter of their baby. Marten, 38, and convicted rapist Mark Gordon, 51, are accused over the death of newborn Victoria in a tent on the South Downs in early 2023. The prosecution alleges that Victoria […]
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