Constance Marten to give evidence over the death of her newborn baby

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Aristocrat Constance Marten is about to give evidence as she stands trial over the death of her newborn baby, together with her associate Mark Gordon.

Jurors at London’s Old Bailey have been informed the 36-year-old would give evidence on Thursday as the trial over the death of their daughter Victoria enters its third month.

The prosecution allege that the couple’s “reckless and utterly selfish” behaviour led to the “entirely avoidable” death of the toddler, named Victoria, after the pair spent weeks dwelling “off-grid” in a tent in freezing circumstances on the South Downs.

The Old Bailey heard that Marten, 36, had hid her being pregnant and gone on the run with her associate Mark Gordon, 49, after their 4 different kids have been taken into care.

The couple, who deny gross negligence manslaughter, insist that Marten fell asleep with the baby zipped inside her jacket and awoke to discover her useless. The toddler’s stays have been finally discovered final March in a Lidl procuring bag in a disused shed, lined in garbage.

Her evidence comes after jurors have been beforehand informed her associate Gordon, 49, wouldn’t be coming into the witness field.

The court docket heard that Marten, who had acquired virtually £50,000 from her belief fund in the weeks earlier than the couple went on the run, had informed detectives she believed social providers had taken their 4 different kids after a household court docket blamed Gordon for her falling from a window.

Marten insisted Gordon was her “soulmate” after the couple met in London and had a wedding ceremony in Peru round seven years in the past.

The couple each deny gross negligence manslaughter of their daughter Victoria between 4 January and 27 February final yr.

They additionally deny fees of perverting the course of justice by concealing the physique, together with concealing the beginning of a toddler, little one cruelty, and permitting the death of a toddler.

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