Constance Marten ‘ignored offers of help’

Aristocrat Constance Marten and her boyfriend ‘shrugged off’ an offer of help from a concerned person who heard their baby crying, jurors heard. Marten, 38, and partner Mark Gordon, 50, went on the run with newborn 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. The…