Key Facts

• Constance Marten and Mark Gordon deny charges of manslaughter by gross negligence and causing the death of a child.
• The couple are under retrial. In their first trial, they were found guilty of hiding the birth of a child and disrupting lawful procedure.
• Marten started giving evidence in the new trial last week, but there were interruptions due to her health issues.
• The couple's baby, Victoria, was found dead in a bag among trash, in a shed in Brighton in 2023.
• Before being on the run, the couple's previous four children were taken into care.
• Marten and Gordon had been trying to hide, including trying to blend in larger crowds, and had plans to flee abroad.
• They lived in a tent for few days after their car caught fire and police started searching for them upon finding a placenta in their car.
• According to Marten, the baby died while she was asleep. The couple entered a state of panic upon realizing Victoria had died.
• The retrial continues at the Old Bailey.