Aristocrat was ‘extremely tired’ when she fell asleep on her baby

Aristocrat Constance Marten would have been ‘incredibly tired’ from breastfeeding when she claims she fell asleep on top of her baby, a court heard. Marten, 38, and partner Mark Gordon, 50, went on the run with their daughter Victoria after their four previous children were taken into care and adopted. 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 heard….

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