‘I’m not an evil mother,’ says Constance Marten

Aristocrat Constance Marten denied being an ‘evil mother’ and ‘murderess’ as she sobbed in court about the death of her child. 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 baby…