7 h. ago Inside hunt for Constance Marten and Mark Gordon as cop recalls 'human placenta' horror

The baby of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon was found stuffed into a rubbish-filled Lidl bag after the pair had spent seven weeks on the run, a manhunt sparked when their car was found

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8 h. ago Constance Marten's 'life was ruined' by joining a Nigerian religious cult that beat women with horsewhips and whose leader required followers to call him 'daddy'

Constance's mother Virginia believed cult leader TB Joshua, who styled himself in internet videos as a miracle healer, could rid her daughter of her 'rebellious spirits'.

Politics

12 h. ago An evangelical mother and the siblings she estranged: inside the complex family Constance Marten left behind

Marten’s mother Virginie and middle brother Tobias both attended her Old Bailey trial — but what of the rest of her family, and what can the five of them tell us about her tragic descent into a life of crime? Katie Strick reports

Politics

13 h. ago Constance Marten set to appeal manslaughter conviction after Old Bailey guilty verdicts

Aristocrat and her partner Mark Gordon expected to appeal their manslaughter convictions over death of baby

Politics

24 h. ago 'Morally bankrupt': Crystal Palace fans march to Selhurst Park in protest at Europa League relegation

Palace are set to appeal the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

Sport

26 h. ago Baby killer Constance Marten set to appeal using legal aid, despite case already costing taxpayers £2.8m

Aristocrat Constance Marten is set to appeal her conviction for killing her baby in a case which has already cost taxpayers over £2.8million.

Economics

30 h. ago ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon

An intimate account of an unprecedented trialIf we believe her parents, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, a baby girl was born on Christmas Eve, 2022, in the upstairs bedroom of Woodcutters Cottage in Haltwhistle, Northumberland. Her mother knelt against the double bed and gave birth without assistance or complication. The baby spent the first days of her life in the small stone-terraced cottage and then began her travels, mostly carried by her mother in a sling, hidden under a burgundy puffer jacket. She travelled far for a newborn, passing through bus stations and port towns, hotels and cafes, cities and fields, from north to south, west to east. We know she lived for at least two weeks, but we don’t know, and can never know, precisely how she died. She was called Victoria. Continue reading...

Politics

31 h. ago Friends and family shunned Constance Marten when she got new boyfriend

Constance Marten was known to family and friends as "Toots". But she cut off from them when she met her children's father Mark Gordon. The pair were convicted of killing their baby Victoria

Politics

31 h. ago Moment Constance Marten told police have found dumped body of newborn baby

Police told Constance Marten during interview that they had found the decomposing body of baby daughter Victoria. The mother of five, and the baby's father, have been convicted of killing her

Events

33 h. ago Constance Marten's baby killer partner Mark Gordon raped a mum

Constance Marten's partner Mark Gordon had previously spent 22 years in prison for violently raping an adult woman in Florida when he was just 14 years old

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34 h. ago Constance Marten claimed long days and bad food denied her a fair trial in extraordinary magazine interview from behind bars

Constance Marten complained about the Old Bailey temperature and food as cover star for The View magazine during her second trial

Society

34 h. ago Inside the painstaking delays and disruption of Constance Marten’s trial

With the Old Bailey’s most senior judge launching accusations of sabotage, the trials of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were like no other

Politics

36 h. ago Stalker once dubbed 'London's most dangerous woman' jailed for campaign to destroy ex

Farah Damji who has ‘truly appalling’ criminal record is serving her prison sentence alongside Constance Marten at HMP Bronzefield

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37 h. ago Constance Marten's life behind bars as killer aristocrat 'befriends Sara Sharif's stepmother' and moaned about treatment in prison magazine cover star interview

Aristocrat Constance Marten, 38, was convicted yesterday alongside Mark Gordon of causing their newborn Victoria's death after going on the run to prevent authorities taking the baby away.

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39 h. ago He's a rapist who was so sadistic he was compared to serial killer Ted Bundy. And when police asked him about his dead daughter, he just demanded mayo for his chicken sandwich

'With mayonnaise?' the astonished officer replied. 'We are not going to make you a sandwich. We need to work out where your child is, mate...'

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39 h. ago Why Constance Marten and Mark Gordon... should NEVER have been parents: Litany of violence, drugs and selfishness revealed for the first time in the damning words of the Family Court judge

The fact that their first four children had all been taken into care and the fifth apparently died in a freezing tent was everyone's fault but their own, she insisted.

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45 h. ago Is this why Tatler 'It Girl' turned baby killer Constance Marten's life spun out of control? The months she spent living with an African church

Lagos is a long way from the aristocratic world in which Constance Marten grew up - both geographically and culturally.

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47 h. ago Constance Marten's partner Mark Gordon spent 20 years in US prison for 'sadistic' rape before being freed and deported to the UK

'With mayonnaise?' the astonished officer replied. 'We are not going to make you a sandwich. We need to work out where your child is, mate...'

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48 h. ago Aristocrat’s ‘evil’ partner should have been jailed for life for raping me, his first victim says

The victim has spoken out after she was attacked in her home by Mark Gordon, who was armed with a knife and hedge-clippers

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50 h. ago Killer aristocrat Constance Marten's estranged mum Virginie de Selliers attended every day of her first trial and even passed her a Christmas card in court

In court the 65-year-old Virginie heard details of how her four grandchildren had been taken in to care and a graphic description of how the fifth - baby Victoria - had died in her daughter's arms.

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