Overview

• A jury at the Old Bailey delivered a unanimous verdict against Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, after a retrial followed a 2024 hung jury on the same charges.
• Prosecutors argued that baby Victoria died from hypothermia or accidental suffocation while the defense maintained her death was unintended despite an inconclusive autopsy.
• The couple triggered a nationwide manhunt in January 2023 by going into hiding to evade social services after losing custody of Marten’s four older children.
• Victoria’s body was discovered on March 1, 2023, in a supermarket bag abandoned in a hangar shortly after the couple’s arrest in Brighton.
• Jurors heard evidence of Gordon’s past convictions for rape and assaults on police officers along with allegations of domestic violence against Marten.