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Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are a couple who went off-grid between 5 January 2023, when their burning car was found abandoned near Bolton, until the date of their arrest on 27 February 2023, in Brighton. Their disappearance coincided with the birth of their daughter.
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Feb 27, 2024 · All of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon's first four children were taken into care, a court has been told. The Old Bailey heard the children were removed when a judge found there had been an...
- Marten’s royal links. Marten, 35, comes from an aristocratic family. Her grandparents were Toby Marten, a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy, and his wife Mary Anna, who attended the Brownies pack at Buckingham Palace alongside Princess Margaret in her youth and was the goddaughter of the late Queen Mother.
- Her rapist partner. Her partner Gordon, 48, who it is understood she met in 2016, was jailed in the late 1980s in Florida, US, after raping and assaulting a woman when he was aged 14.
- Their relationship. Marten has been estranged from her family since beginning the relationship with Gordon. The pair were thought to have previously lived together in Ilford, London.
- Timeline of their disappearance. Having abandoned their car in Bolton on 5 January, Marten and Gordon hailed a taxi to Liverpool where they took another taxi to Harwich in Essex, arriving just after midnight on Friday 6 January.
Jun 26, 2024 · Constance Marten and Mark Gordon have been found guilty of concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice, it can now be reported.
Mar 31, 2023 · Constance Marten and Mark Gordon will stand trial in January 2024 over the alleged manslaughter of a baby girl. The infant's remains were found in a plastic bag under nappies in a Brighton shed...
Apr 30, 2024 · Jurors in the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon have retired to consider their verdicts. Ms Marten, 36, and Mr Gordon, 49, both deny the manslaughter by gross negligence of...
Feb 20, 2024 · On Monday, the jury heard that Ms Marten had been advised by Mr Gordon to say the baby had died of cot death, but she instead told them that the baby had died while she had fallen asleep...
