8 h. ago How Constance Marten and Mark Gordon employed 'covert tactics' like an 'organised crime gang' to evade police for 53 days

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon used covert tactics 'consistent with an organised crime group' to stay ahead of a nationwide manhunt lasting 53 days, claim police officers involved in their case.

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9 h. ago Bizarre incident in Welsh hospital gave glimpse of killer couple Constance Marten and Mark Gordon's sick relationship

When Constance Marten and Mark Gordon wanted to disappear, they chose Wales where they lived in a tent behind a Tesco supermarket

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36 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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3 d. 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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3 d. 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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4 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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5 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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5 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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5 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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5 d. 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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5 d. 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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5 d. 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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6 d. 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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6 d. 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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6 d. 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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6 d. ago From lady to tramp: 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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6 d. 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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6 d. ago How Constance Marten and Mark Gordon tried to 'sabotage' their own trial with brazen lies, ridiculous excuses and vile outbursts

The conditions were 'freezing', the food 'inadequate' and the days long, sometimes 19 hours with little or no rest.

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6 d. 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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6 d. ago Baby killer Mark Gordon moans to police he's hungry as they desperately hunt for newborn

The harrowing footage deemed too prejudicial to show to the jury during the retrial of Victoria's parents Constance Marten and Mark Gordon has now only been released after their jury returned their verdicts

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