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2017 Neonatal Ward Assault Testimony Heard in Marten and Gordon Manslaughter Trial

Prosecutors introduced the 2017 incident to illustrate a pattern of violence preceding the couple’s flight in 2022.

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Overview

  • Detective Sergeant Delma Jones testified that Gordon pushed two officers after giving a false identity in a Welsh neonatal ward in 2017.
  • Court records show Gordon pleaded guilty to assaulting Pc Sian Beynon and Detective Sergeant Delma Jones during that incident.
  • Marten, 38, and Gordon, 50, deny gross negligence manslaughter and causing or allowing the death of baby Victoria as their trial continues.
  • The couple fled after Victoria’s birth in late 2022, triggering a national manhunt that ended with their arrest and the infant’s body found in a Brighton shed.
  • Jurors were reminded that the couple’s first four children were removed by social services and that they were previously convicted of concealing a birth and perverting justice.