Constance Marten ‘is trying to manipulate Old Bailey jury’

The death of aristocrat Constance Marten’s baby became ‘inevitable’ when her parents chose to sleep in a tent with her in the middle of winter, a court heard. Marten, 38, and partner Mark Gordon, 50, went on the run with their baby daughter after their four previous children were taken into care and adopted. Baby Victoria died while living in a flimsy tent in the South Downs in January ‘with hardly any clothes or means of keeping or remaining warm’,…