Contance Marten claims she was trying to protect her baby from ‘neglect and abuse’

An aristocrat accused of killing her newborn daughter insisted today (mon) she was trying to save her child from being taken into care ‘where neglect and abuse are rampant’. Constance Marten, 36, and boyfriend Mark Gordon, 49, are accused of killing Victoria by taking her on the run in January 2023 to prevent her being taken away by social services. The baby’s placenta was found in an exploded car on a Manchester motorway sparking a huge police hunt as the…