A British aristocrat and her boyfriend are convicted of killing their newborn
London (AP) – Gone Running with her boyfriend and newborn girls In 2023, he was sentenced to kill the baby on Monday.
38 -year -old Constance Marten and 51 -year -old Mark Gordon, London’s Central Criminal Court was found guilty of the murder of heavy negligence. Previously, they were convicted of misleading the course of justice by concealing the birth of a child and child persecution in their first hearing.
Marten gave birth to a girl named Victoria secretly after being taken by the courts who found the risk of damaging their four children.
Although he had connections with the royal family and had rich parents with his own trust fund, Marten rejected his privilege. He lived from time to time without paying rent, and when he was in the lam, he cleaned food from the garbage boxes and set up camp under freezing conditions.
On January 5, 2023, the police launched a major search throughout the country, which lasted for seven weeks after the couple had a placenta in the burnt and abandoned car in the northwest England.
The couple spent hundreds of pounds up to the country, as they avoided using credit cards or anything that could define them.
After he was arrested in Brighton on February 27, he refused to say where the couple was. Gordon, who served in the US prison for more than 20 years for rape, said, “What is the Great Agreement?” He said. When asked about the baby’s welfare.
Two days later, the police found the baby’s separated body in a shopping bag under garbage in a garden hut. The prosecutors said that the baby was either died of hypothermia or drowned.
Couple, Marten said that the tragic accident occurred while sleeping.
Both defendants testified during the second hearing, but they shortened their expressions during the cross examination. Marten described prosecution as “heartless” and “evil”.
