Constance Marten and Mark Gordon have been found guilty of concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice. The aristocrat and her partner were convicted of concealing the birth of their baby daughter, Victoria, whose body was found in an allotment in Brighton in March 2023.
Marten, 37, and Mark Gordon, 50, went off-grid with daughter Victoria to evade authorities after four other children were taken into care. Over seven weeks, the couple travelled across England before sleeping in a tent on the South Downs as police searched for the missing baby.
Two days after their arrests in Golf Drive, Brighton last February, Victoria's decomposed body was found in an allotment shed inside a Lidl bag-for-life. A jury at the Old Bailey found the couple guilty of concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice, it can now be reported.
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