2 h. ago My summer of love and magic mushrooms with the aristocratic party girl who ended up killing her baby

The conversations Francis Abolo had with his on-off girlfriend Constance Marten have taken on a darker meaning, in particular her desire to find a 'special person' and to become a mum.

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16 h. ago Constance Marten: Warning signs on killer mum who dumped dead baby in Lidl bag

Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon were convicted of gross negligence manslaughter of their infant daughter. Marten had previously shown an inability to connect with others

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21 h. ago Constance Marten's final act of cruelty to tragic baby who lived in Lidl bag for days

A killer couple's movements around the country became increasingly frantic as they tried to avoid social services - and sadly their baby was already dead by the time they was found

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37 h. ago Are collagen shots and supplements really the secret to youthful skin?

Treatments to boost the protein are all the rage, but the evidence is uncertain and any results could be short-livedFrom high-end aesthetics clinics to the middle aisle of Lidl, collagen is having a moment. Whether it’s in the form of fruity shots or powdered supplements, this structural protein is being touted as the secret to youthful skin and glossy hair.Celebrities are also singing the praises of a collagen-boosting procedure called NeoGen, with the actor Leslie Ash claiming earlier this week that it had “taken 10 years off her”. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Baby killer Constance Marten in Harry Potter 'Dementors' rant at prosecutors

Constance Marten has spoken from inside HMP Bronzefield where she is held alongside fellow serial baby-killing nurse Lucy Letby.

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53 h. ago Richard Tice claims he’s seen people carrying ‘bags and bags’ of postal votes to a polling station

Richard Tice claimed he has seen "people carry bag loads of postal votes to a polling station on election day" during a House of Commons urgent question on Labour's strategy for elections on Thursday (17 July).

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58 h. ago Constance Marten only discovered Mark Gordon was imprisoned twenty years for rape after he assaulted two police officers at the birth of their first child, unseen family court documents reveal

Veteran crime correspondent Rebecca Camber has broken down previously withheld family court documents that refute many of the narratives Marten spun during the trial.

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66 h. ago Baby killer Constance Marten's weird social posts from baby yoga to dead chickens

Mum-of-five Constance Marten was convicted along with her partner Mark Gordon of the manslaughter of their baby daughter. Her Instagram posts give a glimpse into her wild life

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3 d. ago Mirror Daily Digest: Our top stories from Starmer suspends MPs to boy, 6, 'kills newborn in hospital'

In this Wednesday's Mirror Daily Digest, we've pulled together the biggest stories of the day from Starmer's suspension of four Labour MPs to the tragic death of a baby in hospital

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3 d. 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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3 d. 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'.

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3 d. 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

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3 d. 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

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4 d. 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

4 d. 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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4 d. 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

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4 d. 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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4 d. 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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4 d. 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

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4 d. 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

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