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Aristocrat MA & PSYCO 'Daddy Bear' Father JAILED For Killing Baby
Constance Marten and Rapist Partner Mark Gordon Jailed For Killing Baby
Former Tatler It girl Aristocrat Constance Marten and her convicted rapist boyfriend Mark Gordon have been sentenced for the manslaughter of their newborn daughter Victoria
MailOnline 15 SEP 2025
Mother of five Constance Marten and her rapist Daddy Bear boyfriend have been jailed for a total of 28 years after their baby daughter died when they took her on the run to live rough.
Baby Victorias dead body was found by police at the bottom of a discarded Lidl bag, hidden under rubbish including a Budweiser can and an egg mayonnaise and cress sandwich package, which had been left in a shed on an allotment in Brighton. During her young life she had been taken by her mum Marten and dad Mark Gordon on a journey criss-crossing the country, in a bid to avoid the authorities.
Marten, 38, and Gordon, 51, both denied manslaughter by gross negligence of their daughter between January 4 and February 27, 2023, but were convicted following a retrial and appeared at the Old Bailey today to be sentenced for that crime and other convictions.
Marten and Gordon were each sentenced to 14 years behind bars, with Gordon also subjected to four more years on extended licence. As Judge Mark Lucraft KC handed down his sentence, he told them There has been no expression of remorse from either of you, adding they had been seeking to blame everyone else other than yourselves for what happened.
Seven jurors had returned to court to see the parents sentenced.
Marten with one of her other children
The pair had their first four children taken into care and they went on the run, planning to stop their newborn being taken by the state. They had been reported missing in early January 2023 and travelled around the UK to try and conceal their whereabouts.
Paying hundreds of pounds for taxis, the couple, with the Victoria visited Liverpool, Harwich, London, Colchester and eventually East Sussex amid a major hunt to find them. The defendants were caught on CCTV scavenging in bins for food even though Marten had received thousands of pounds from a trust fund and had GB19,000 in the bank.
They were finally arrested in Brighton last February 27 and baby Victorias decomposing body was found by police two days later.
The couple stood trial on a host of charges but when a jury was unable to reach verdicts on all of them, a retrial was ordered.
Gordon, who had already served more than 20 years in prison in America for rape, decided half way through proceedings to represent himself.
The moment Marten was arrested in Brighton
The Old Bailey jury was told the pair camped on the South Downs in wintry conditions, after they abandoned their car weeks earlier when it burst into flames near Bolton, Greater Manchester amid the highprofile manhunt. The court heard that the couple kept Victorias body in the shopping bag for days or even weeks after her death.
Marten told jurors Victoria was born on Christmas Eve 2022, and died on January 9, 2023. The prosecution alleged Victoria died from hypothermia or was smothered while co sleeping in a flimsy tent. In her evidence, Marten told jurors that the baby died after she blacked out and fell asleep over her after feeding her.
Marten with baby Victoria
The bag Victoria was found in
Constance Martens mother Virginie de Selliers watched her daughters sentencing
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