Constance Marten says: ‘I’m not going to sit here and be spoken to like that and refuses to give any more evidence

Aristocrat Constance Marten has refused to continue giving evidence about the death of her baby after calling the prosecutor ‘rude’ and ‘patronising’. 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 heard. The…

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