Who is Mark Gordon? The rapist who went on the run with aristocrat partner and their newborn baby
More than 30 years ago, Mark Gordon was imprisoned by a neighbor’s terrible rape, and after climbing through the bedroom window equipped with garden scissors, he terrorized his victim in his own house.
After serving in a US prison for 22 years, Gordon now returned behind the railings in England, and today he was sentenced to the murder of the newborn baby Victoria of Aristocratic partner Constance Marten.
The couple was the subject of a high -profile manhunt at the beginning of 2023 before they were arrested by the police two months later. Tiny Victoria’s body was discovered in a Lidl shopping bag that extends between a sandwich winding and an empty beer box before escaping to a pair of police.
At the center of the tragedy, there is a relationship between Gordon and Marten whose backgrounds are not different.
Marten, who was about 13 years, was a society “It Girl” that once adorned the pages of taste. However, he broke his ties with his wealthy family and started an out -of -network life after being held with Gordon and his institution.
During his eight -year relationships, the couple had four children, in the prisoner Felon and Marten, at the end of the death of his fifth child, he went down to the former Bailey dock to face the death of mansions.
For Gordon, it was another chapter that became a crime life. Born in Birmingham in 1974, Gordon and his family moved to Florida when he was a child, where they lived at various addresses in Miami, including Broward and Miami-Padade district.
On April 29, 1989, he was later armed with a 14 -year -old and a kitchen knife and garden scissors, attacked his neighbor and held him more than four hours hostage while raping him.
The US court documents elaborate on how to hide outside the bedroom with a nylon socks covering her face after leaving her room to investigate why her dogs bark.
The documents say that Gordon ordered him back into the bedroom while the door next to the two little children sleeps. He raped him there and held against his will on the property before he escaped.
Shortly after a month, on May 21, he was armed with a flat -headed shovel during the robbery attempt, while only six doors from the first victim entered a different house.
After forcing him to enter, he took knives at home and found a man lying in bed. The court documents reveal that when the man wakes up, Gordon beat him with a shovel and his body.
Gordon, who was arrested less than a month on June 13, was accused of a number of armed kidnapping, four separate armed sexual batteries and a deadly weapon.
He was sentenced to 40 years in prison and served in Florida prison for 22 years before returning to England in 2010.
After a short career in the field of journalism, while studying at the East 15 drama school, very little is known for his life for the next four years until he met Marten in a incense shop in London in 2014.
Two years later, although not legally binding, the couple had a marriage ceremony in Peru.
In the coming years, the two have taken themselves away from society, and Marten’s friends were questioning on the social media where dear Toots ” went.
It is understood that the couple was moved to Ilford in the east of London, but spent time to live in a campwan and festival -style tent while bringing their first children together.
However, especially after giving false names to a double hospital and posing with the “Fake Irish accent” when Marten was born, concerns were brought to the agenda by the social services.
The jury members claimed that Gordon was attacked by two police officers who were invited to a birth ward in Wales in 2017 after Gordon gave birth to one of Victoria’s older brothers.
Gordon had to be forcibly restricted during the incident, and more police had a new father to help the officer before he came to arrest him.
Gordon, who gave evidence in court, did not refer to his problematic past, but he said to the jury members: “Everyone faces difficulties in life.”
Eventually, after the domestic violence in 2019, a judge found the risk of girmek to be subjected to physical violence between parents and damaging children, and four of the couple were removed from their care in 2022.
Considering the decisions to avoid living a “mainstream” life, they did their best to stay under the radar. In August 2022, he was evacuated from their homes in the Coldharbour field in Greenwich because they could not pay rent, leaving smoke damage and after a partially collapsed ceiling.
Nevertheless, Gordon once again attracted the attention of the police on January 5, 2023, and after leaving Marten burning cars on the hard shoulder of M61, several burners were discovered in telephone and placenta.
The discovery arrived shortly after the couple welcomed a fifth child during the Christmas period, and the media appeals Bolton, Liverpool, Essex, East raw and finally followed his movements to South Downs near Brighton.
On February 27, they were arrested after a nationwide person, and both refused to expose their children despite the satisfaction of civil servants.
After coming to the police station, a Gordon appeared in a seemingly injured, went to Clamber from the wheelchair he was sitting on, and complained that his legs suffered when he was invited to explain the “side of the story”.
He grunted that he had received sub-Par treatment, insisted that he had no crime and was entitled to respect before he wanted pills to help the pain in his feet.
In a rent caught in the police camera, he said: orum I feel like a scum. I feel like I was filthy. I feel a piece. I feel that I am treated in this way. ”
Taking the witness stance, Victoria claimed that after the police did not follow them after the cars of Victoria turned into flames on a highway near Bolton.
“We were a little unstable. We came out of our heads,” he said. “There is two people harassed by the forces.
Crying, he said: “At some point, I told my wife that we should all go on a pyre with the baby.
“It is a terrible thing to see as we seem to be like monsters. It is terrible to see your life being destroyed before your eyes.
“This is our baby. He’s dead. He’s gone. We have to live with this. Our names are dragged from the mud like filth.”
