‘Constance Marten is an excellent mother’

The partner of aristocrat Constance Marten told police she was an ‘excellent mother’ who did not intend to hurt her baby, a court heard. Marten, 37, 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’, the Old Bailey has…