3 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.

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7 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...

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8 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

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10 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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22 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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29 h. ago Constance Marten's crocodile tears: Moment killer aristocrat 'breaks down' as she is told her baby has been found dead is revealed

The new footage shows the moment a police detective breaks the news to Marten that her daughter has been found dead.

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30 h. ago From lady to a tramp: Baby killer Constance Marten was worth £2.4m and was once named a Tatler 'Babe of the Month'. But she ended up scavenging from bins after estrangement from her family

From the dock of the Old Bailey, Constance Marten repeatedly insisted that she and Mark Gordon were good parents. But the official record of what actually happened paints a very different picture...

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31 h. ago Constance Marten: the aristocrat who fell from high society to become a convicted baby killer

How Constance Marten lost a life of luxury and privilege to now reside in a prison cell

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31 h. ago Mark Gordon: The rapist who went on the run with his aristocrat partner and their newborn baby

The convicted rapist and armed robber was at the centre of a two-month manhunt as he went on run with Constance Marten and their newborn

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32 h. ago Moment Constance Marten gives chilling response after baby's body found in Lidl bag

Shocking footage has been released of the moment aristocrat Constance Marten was told by police her baby's decomposed body was found in a shopping bag in Brighton

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33 h. ago ‘Where is your child?’: Moment Constance Marten arrested after going on run

Police repeatedly asked Constance Marten "where is your child" in a video of her arrest in Brighton in February 2023.

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33 h. ago Constance Marten and Mark Gordon guilty of killing their baby daughter after ‘recklessly’ going on the run in winter

Baby Victoria was deprived of warmth and shelter during her short life after her parents took her ‘off-grid’, before her body was left in a bag for life to decompose

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33 h. ago Tragic final days of Constance Marten's baby who was left rotting with rubbish

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon's baby daughter Victoria was tragically found deceased by police officers inside a rubbish-filled Lidl shopping bag in a disused shed

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33 h. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten guilty with partner Mark Gordon of baby manslaughter

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were found guilty of manslaughter after two trials

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33 h. ago Video shows Constance Marten’s reaction to discovery of baby’s body

Marten, 38, appeared frozen and monosyllabic as police broke the news during an interview on March 1 2023.

Culture

34 h. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten and partner guilty after baby's body found in carrier bag

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The baby of aristocrat Constance Marten and Mark Gordon was found stuffed into a rubbish-filled Lidl bag, the pair then went on the run

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34 h. ago Aristocrat Constance Marten and rapist guilty after baby's body found in carrier bag

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: The baby of aristocrat Constance Marten and Mark Gordon was found stuffed into a rubbish-filled Lidl bag, the pair then went on the run

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34 h. ago Verdict given in trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon for manslaughter of their newborn baby

A jury at the Old Bailey made its decision on Monday afternoon

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34 h. ago Constance Marten and partner guilty of killing their baby daughter after ‘recklessly’ going on the run in winter

Baby Victoria was deprived of warmth and shelter during her short life after her parents took her ‘off-grid’, before her body was left in a bag for life to decompose

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34 h. ago Constance Marten: Aristocrat guilty after taking baby girl 'off

Parents Constance Marten and Mark Gordon faced re-trial at the Old Bailey charged with manslaughter by gross negligence of their newborn baby Victoria whose body was found in a Lidl bag

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