Taxpayer will pick up aristocrat Constance Marten’s legal bill

Aristocrat Constance Marten, who went on the run with her boyfriend before their newborn baby was found dead in an allotment, is having her defence case funded by the taxpayer. Marten, 36, and Mark Gordon, 49, sparked a huge police hunt after they went on the run with little Victoria in January this year. Victoria was later found dead in a plastic bag in a shed under a heap of nappies on a Brighton allotment. They deny the manslaughter of…