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Aristocrat Constance Marten and her convicted rapist partner Mark Gordon have been jailed for 14 years each for killing their newborn baby while on the run.

Runaway aristocrat Constance Marten killed her baby accidentally by falling asleep while hiding in a tent on the South Downs, her retrial has heard.

Mum of five Constance Marten is on trial with her partner Mark Gordon at the Old Bailey, where they are accused of manslaughter by neglect of their baby daughter Victoria

Constance Marten is on trial for the manslaughter of baby Victoria at the Old Bailey alongside her partner Mark Gordon. Victoria was found dead in a Lidl bag for life

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are on trial at the Old Bailey for the manslaughter of their fifth child Victoria who was found dead after the pair decided to live off grid

Constance Marten previously told the court that she "gave her baby the best any mother could" and did "nothing but show her love". Victoria was found dead in a Lidl bag last March

Constance Marten has told the Old Bailey she 'feels responsible' for the death of baby daughter Victoria as she stands trial with her 49-year-old boyfriend Mark Gordon

The 36-year-old and partner Mark Gordon are charged with killing their baby Victoria after taking her to live in a tent, in a bid to stop her being taken away by social services, the court has been told

Aristocrat mum Constance Marten, 36, and her 49-year-old boyfriend deny multiple charges over the death of their baby Victoria, as Marten told a trial that she 'did nothing but show her love'

Constance Marten has taken to the stand today in her manslaughter trial at the Old Bailey where she and partner Mark Gordon are accused of killing their fifth child, newborn daughter Victoria

Constance Marten and partner Mark Gordon are on trial at the Old Bailey charged with the manslaughter of their baby Victoria who was found dead in a Lidl carrier bag

Aristocrat Constance Marten and her boyfriend Mark Gordon, 49, should not have lived in a tent with their newborn baby daughter before the child died, a trial has heard

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are accused of killing their newborn baby Victoria by taking her on the run in January last year to prevent her being taken away by social services, allegations they deny

Constance Marten, who is on trial for causing the death of her baby Victoria, received a payment of £47,886 from C. Hoare & Co solicitors between September 1 2022 and January 17 2023, a court heard

Constance Marten told police, in an interview played to the jury today, about the moments after her newborn daughter's death whilst her and Mark Gordon went on the run in South Downs from social services

Constance Marten, a British aristocrat, and Mark Gordon, spent almost two months on the run, living off the grid, before police caught up with them and arrested the couple - then days later found the remains of their baby, Victoria

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon spent almost two months on the run with their newborn daughter Victoria, before they were arrested, and her body later found in a red Lidl bag stashed in an unused shed

Constance Marten and partner Mark Gordon spent eight weeks on the run after giving birth to little baby Victoria, but once they were caught they both repeatedly refused to answer any questions on their daughter's whereabouts

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are accused of killing their newborn baby Victoria through gross negligence after they allegedly took her on the run from social services

Newly released police footage shows Mark Gordon demanding mayonnaise for his chicken as he and partner Constance Marten are arrested by police over the death of their infant daughter

Constance Marten, 36, and Mark Gordon, 49, deny the manslaughter of baby Victoria by gross negligence between January 4 and February 27 last year

The Old Bailey was shown CCTV of Constance Marten in a petrol station as the jury heard evidence she and partner Mark Gordon 'shoplifted' and 'scavenged from bins' to survive while on the run

Jurors at the trial today were shown footage from January 12 last year of the moment a woman, alleged to be Constance Marten, walks over to a petrol pump and fills up a water bottle full of fuel

Constance Marten, 36, was allegedly seen buying Coca-Cola and sweets from a Texaco garage in Newhaven in footage shown to the court while she was living off-grid with her boyfriend

Constance Marten, 36, and Mark Gordon, 49, allegedly abandoned their pet cat after leaving a burnt out car on the M61 with their baby Victoria who they are accused of killing