Constance Marten and Mark Gordon guilty on two charges over baby death

It comes after a jury at the Old Bailey failed to agree verdicts following a trial lasting six months Runaway aristocrat Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon have been found guilty of hiding the birth of their newborn daughter who was found dead in a Lidle bag for life. Marten, 37, and Mark Gordon, 50, went off grid with baby Victoria in a bid to evade authorities after their four other children were taken into care, jurors at the Old Bailey heard.

On Wednesday, prosecutor Tom Little KC announced the Crown would seek a retrial as Judge Mark Lucraft KC, the Recorder of London, allowed reporting of the two guilty verdicts. The judge set a provisional six to eight-week retrial from March 3 next year. Court artist sketch of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Jurors heard that police began a search for the missing baby after a placenta was found in a burning car on the motorway near Bolton, Greater Manchester, last January 5.

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