Constance Marten and Mark Gordon - The Verdict
The Trial
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🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In January 2023, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon went on the run with their newborn baby Victoria. After a nationwide hunt, the couple were found. Two days later, so was the body of Victoria.
Last year a jury found the pair guilty of concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice. However, unable to reach a verdict on the charge of manslaughter, the jury was discharged. Constance Marten and Mark Gordon have faced a retrial on this charge, and today, we finally have the verdict.
Caroline and Jack also sit down with Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford, who helped lead the hunt for Constance Martin and Mark Gordon, in an exclusive interview.
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| 0:00.0 | In January, 2023, Constance Martin and her boyfriend, Mark Gordon, disappeared and went on the run with their newborn baby, Victoria. |
| 0:10.3 | A nationwide search resulted in the sad discovery of Victoria's body, and the pair have now been charged with killing her, which they both deny. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Jack Hardy, a news reporter for the Daily Mail. And I'm |
| 0:23.2 | broadcaster and journalist Caroline Cheaton. Last year, a jury could not decide if they were |
| 0:28.6 | responsible. Today, a new jury have just found them guilty, and we have all of the details. As |
| 0:35.8 | those verdicts were announced, the couple shook their heads. Mark |
| 0:39.8 | Gordon then shouted, I'm not surprised. It was faulty, it was unlawful, this is not over. It has only |
| 0:47.0 | just begun. And Constance Martin said, it's a scam. This is the trial. |
| 0:56.0 | Constance Martin and Mark Gordon. |
| 1:12.5 | So today, a jury have decided Constance Martin and Mark Gordon did cause the death of their newborn baby girl, |
| 1:18.3 | Victoria. The jury decided the couple's decision to run to live off-grid for weeks and weeks, |
| 1:24.2 | scavenging in bins and keeping warm with the stuffing from an old sofa, all to stop social services from removing their daughter, was so reckless and so selfish that it caused |
| 1:29.3 | her death. Today in this special episode, we'll have all of the details from court, as well as |
| 1:35.1 | much of the detail we haven't been able to bring you so far. Welcome to episode 29, |
| 1:41.6 | The Verdict. |
| 2:06.6 | Thank you. episode 29, The Verdict. Today, in this special episode, we'll reflect not just on this case and what we've heard at the old Bailey, but also on the background to all of this. That background helps to explain why |
| 2:12.7 | there was such concern that this couple who had already had four children removed had just secretly |
| 2:19.6 | had another baby and they were now on the run with that baby. This story dates back not just a few |
| 2:26.7 | years but more than a decade. Today and in special episodes in the coming days will bring you |
| 2:32.7 | the full story. So when the hunt for this tiny |
| 2:35.5 | newborn baby at the centre of this case began, she didn't even have a name. Where's the baby, |
| 2:40.7 | madam? Repeatedly asked the police officers who eventually picked up her parents. They were looking |
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