58 h. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten’s partner refuses to answer prosecution questions over baby death

Mark Gordon, 50, refused to be cross-examined by the prosecution after giving evidence in his defence

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63 h. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten's partner Mark Gordon ends evidence early in baby manslaughter trial

Mark Gordon told the court ‘I’m finished with my testimony’ as he returned to the Old Bailey witness box

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63 h. ago Constance Marten’s partner refuses to answer prosecution questions

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are charged with the manslaughter of their baby daughter Victoria, who died in a tent on the South Downs in 2023.

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4 d. ago Constance Marten’s partner suggested they ‘go together on pyre’ after baby death

Mark Gordon said he found their daughter Victoria had gone limp after they pitched a tent on the South Downs amid a national manhunt.

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4 d. ago Constance Marten’s partner claims baby only died because of police manhunt

‘We had become deranged a little bit. We were off our heads,’ Gordon told jurors

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6 d. ago Mothers falling asleep after breastfeeding ‘almost universal’, court hears

Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 50, are on trial charged with the manslaughter of their baby daughter Victoria.

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1 week ago Sleeping in tent with new baby ‘not reasonable parenting decision’, court told

Baby Victoria died from hypothermia or was smothered while co-sleeping in a ‘flimsy’ tent with Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, it is alleged.

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2 w. ago Dramatic moment weeping aristocrat Constance Marten is quizzed in court by lover jointly accused of killing their baby

Constance Marten, 37, was cross-examined by Mark Gordon, 50, today after he was allowed to represent himself in the case. They have both been charged with manslaughter.

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2 w. ago Constance Marten tells jury aristocratic family member ‘doesn’t want me alive’

The mother, who standing trial over the death of her baby while on the run, believes she was followed by private investigators who tampered with her car, a court heard

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2 w. ago Constance Marten says her family ‘will stop at nothing to get what they want’

Marten, 37, and her partner Mark Gordon, 50, deny the gross negligence manslaughter of their daughter Victoria.

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2 w. ago Mark Gordon to represent himself in retrial over death of baby with Constance Marten

Ms Marten claims she did not report their baby’s death as they camped off-grid on the South Downs because she did not want to be branded an ‘evil mother’

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2 w. ago Mark Gordon to represent himself in trial over death of baby girl, court told

Judge Mark Lucraft KC told jurors at the Old Bailey that Gordon’s previous barrister John Femi-Ola KC has ‘withdrawn’ from the case.

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3 w. ago Constance Marten tells manslaughter trial she 'feared being dubbed evil over baby's death'

Runaway aristocrat says she didnt’t hand herself into police for fear of being branded a ‘murderess’ and bought petrol as she considered cremating her baby

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3 w. ago Constance Marten tells jurors she feared being branded an ‘evil mother’

Marten, 37, and Mark Gordon, 50, are charged with the manslaughter of their daughter Victoria.

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3 w. ago Constance Marten denies carrying baby in supermarket bag while on the run

Constance Marten calls the suggestion she and her co-accused carried their baby Victoria in a supermarket bag ‘absolutely absurd’

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