Guilty to Homicide by their daughter’s negligence Victoria, which they were trying to hide from her social welfare services Britainjudged today (14.07.2025) an aristocrat and her partner
A few moments after being convicted by a British court, accused Mark Gordon shouted angrily: “I am not surprised by the verdict. It was wrong, it was illegal. This is not over, it just started. “
A year ago, the jurors failed to end up in unanimity after meeting for 72 hours for the role they played in the baby’s death Constanns Marten, the 38 -year -old heir to a family with close ties with the palaces and the 51 -year -old partneri.
In their new trial in Old Bailey, London, both were guilty of negligent homicide. In the previous trial they were convicted of brutal treatment of a minor and because they hid the child’s birth.
Both remain in custody and will learn their sentence on September 15th.
In January 2023, The story of the aristocratic and her partner, who had served a 20 -year prison sentence in the US for rape, was found in the British tabloid headlines.
As Konsts Marten herself told court, The couple, who lived on the sidelines, tried to hide Victoria’s birth because their welfare had already taken their other four children.
The discovery of a placenta in the car they had left on the edge of a highway near Manchester, He upset the police who started looking for them all over the country.
After hiding for weeks, staying in hotels or in a scene, in the midst of winter, traveling by taxi from place to place, were eventually arrested on February 27, 2023 in Brighton, southern England. Victoria, just a few days old, was found dead on March 1, in a supermarket bag, observed in a shed.
The exact cause of the baby’s death was not determined by the necropsy-necrotomy. Prosecutors They believed she died of hypothermia or suffocation because her mother stabbed her in her sleep. The couple insisted from the beginning that it was an accident and that they were not brutally brutally.
Unlike the first trial, the jurors this time were partly informed of Mark Gordon’s violent past.
In addition to conviction of rape in 1989, when he was 14 years old, Gordon was found guilty of attacking two police officers in a 2017 Maternity Hospital and was suspected of domestic violence against Marten, resulting in a spleen rupture while pregnant.