Jury retires to consider verdict in retrial of Constance Marten and partner over baby death

A jury retired to think about the death of his newborn babies as he escaped, while a jury was escaped.

38 -year -old mother and 51 -year -old convicted rapist Mark Gordon is accused of causing or permissioning to death or death of Victoria, whose fifth child died while camping in southern exits last winter.

The prosecution claims that Victoria died of hypothermia or drowning together in a “grilled dir tent to prevent it from being cared for like four children.

Victoria’s decomposition remains were found in a shopping bag full of garbage in an unused allocation hut.

Marten told Old Bailey that he did not know that he was “falling asleep, darkened and fainted or fainted, but he waved on the lifeless baby.

Last year, parents were convicted of hiding the birth of the child and misleading the course of justice at a previous hearing.

Prosecutor Tom Little Kc, who was re -tried in March, told the jury Marten that he was a “confidence fund child ıyla with a lies of an art form”.

He claimed that parents used a red Lidl bag to carry the newborn while escaping from the authorities before his final death due to the newborn, hypothermia or “heavy negligent sleep together”.

“It would be open to the defendants, let it be left to their children, you should think that looking at any child is a completely inappropriate way,” the baby added that the baby did not have just a baby gro and hat.

On January 8, 2023, he said he was “wet” when they settled in South Downs in a “thin and rotten” tent.

Mr. Little said to the jury: “In the southern outlets (as I said), they decided to camp in relatively cold and clearly dangerous conditions with insufficient and insufficient clothes and equipment for the baby, and then they did not ask for help or help.”

The jury members were told that Gordon was sentenced to rape a woman in Florida when he was armed with knife and fence clippers at the age of 14 in 1989.

The court entered another property within a month and carried out another crime containing “aggravated batteries .. In February 1994, Gordon was sentenced to 40 years of imprisonment for 22 years.

Gordon, who represented himself for the majority of the trial, said that Victoria’s death had occurred after “hunting and traumatized” and losing his four other children to the maintenance system.

As he rejected the prosecution case as “fantasy ,, he said that they were“ removed from humanity ”and“ worsening ”.

Tom Godfrey, representing Marten, said that his “greatest fear” lost Victoria and took a high -profile police person to underground.

The police said that the baby made “instant title news” and objected to finding “the country obsessed”.

“From this moment on, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were to avoid identifying the only way to hold Victoria.

“It was a clear influence, regardless of rights and mistakes. Constitutional Marten And Mark Gordon is more underground. “

After Victoria’s death, it was reduced to a “close disorder” and “a sense of despair and guilt, Godfrey said.

Parents deny that they allow or allow the death of the great negligence man or the death of newborn daughters.