Overview

• Tom Little KC told jurors that Marten and Gordon deliberately hid the flimsy South Downs tent conditions while evading authorities
• The prosecution said Victoria died of hypothermia before her body was placed in a shopping bag and left in a disused Brighton shed
• Jurors heard that Mark Gordon was convicted in Florida in 1989 for armed kidnapping, rape and battery and served 22 years of a 40-year sentence
• The defendants deny gross negligence manslaughter and argue that the police manhunt precipitated the fatal sequence of events
• Judge Mark Lucraft instructed jurors to disregard trial delays caused by changes in the defendants’ legal teams and focus on the evidence