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🗓️ 18 July 2025
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Born into an aristocratic family, Constance Marten and her unlikely partner Mark Gordon's became the target of a police manhunt launched to find them and their missing baby in January 2023. Their full story can now be told after the couple's criminal trial came to an end this week. Why did her life of privilege descend into such chaos?
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0:00.0 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Saturday. |
0:07.5 | I'm Manvine Rana. |
0:10.8 | This week, the trial of Constance Martin and Mark Gordon came to an end. |
0:16.5 | It was a story that had gripped the nation from the moment a manhunt was launched to find |
0:23.4 | the aristocratic society girl, her unlikely partner and their missing baby back in January |
0:30.5 | 2023. |
0:32.9 | But it wasn't until this moment, eight weeks later, that a story that had fueled a media frenzy became a full-blown tragedy. |
0:46.6 | Right, you run away from that. |
0:49.3 | Put the stick down. |
0:51.4 | Drop it now. |
0:53.3 | Right, at this moment in time, until I can confirm who you are, you both under arrest on suspicion of child neglects. |
0:57.6 | It was a quarter to ten at night on a quiet residential road in Brighton. |
1:04.9 | A disheveled-looking couple was surrounded by police who were placing them under arrest. |
1:11.3 | Where's your child, my friend? |
1:14.0 | Where's the child? |
1:15.2 | In a minute, where's your child? |
1:20.1 | Where's your child, madam? |
1:21.7 | Constance Martin and Mark Gordon had finally been found. |
1:31.1 | But where was their baby? Where is the child, please? Daddy bird. Look at me. |
1:33.6 | Constance. How about it? Who are you? All right. Where's your child? |
1:43.3 | More than two years and two trials later, they've both been found guilty of child cruelty |
1:50.2 | and manslaughter by gross negligence. |
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