Overview

• Last year’s trial ended with a hung jury on manslaughter charges while the pair were convicted of concealing Victoria’s birth and cruelty to a minor.
• A placenta discovered on January 5, 2023, in their burned-out car spurred a 54-day nationwide manhunt that concluded with their arrest in Brighton on February 27.
• Victoria’s body was found on March 1, 2023, inside a supermarket bag in a shed and prosecutors cited hypothermia or accidental asphyxiation as likely causes.
• British social services had removed the couple’s four older children over safety concerns, prompting Marten to give birth in secret to protect her newborn.
• Gordon served 20 years in a US prison for rape and was later convicted of assaulting police officers in Wales, while Marten descends from an aristocratic family historically close to the royal household.