Mother-of-five Constance Marten and her rapist "Daddy Bear" boyfriend have been jailed for a total of 28 years after their baby daughter died when they took her on the run to live rough.

Baby Victoria's dead body was found by police at the bottom of a discarded Lidl bag, hidden under rubbish including a Budweiser can and an egg mayonnaise and cress sandwich package, which had been left in a shed on an allotment in Brighton. During her young life she had been taken by her mum Marten and dad Mark Gordon on a journey criss-crossing the country, in a bid to avoid the authorities.

Marten, 38, and Gordon, 51, both denied manslaughter by gross negligence of their daughter between January 4 and February 27, 2023, but were convicted following a retrial and appeared at the Old Bailey today to

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