More than 30 years ago, Mark Gordon was imprisoned for a dreaded rape of a neighbor, after climbing his bedroom window in his house, was equipped with a garden scissors.
After serving 22 years in the US jail, Gordon is now behind bars in Britain, Today was convicted with his elite’s fellow Constance Marton Murder of the gross negligence of his newborn Victoria.
Couple A high-profile nationwide manhint was the subject In the beginning of 2023, before he was eventually arrested by the police. Small Victoria’s body was discovered In a lidal shopping bag, a sandwich was lying between the wrappers and an empty beer, which was left in an allotment shed before running into a bid to escape from the police.
The tragedy is in the heart The relationship between Gordon and Marton, whose background could not be much different.
Marten, a few 13 years of his junior, once a society “It Girl”, who caught the pages of Tutler magazine. ,
During their eight -year relationship, The couple removed four children from their care, Finally landing in the dock old Bailey To face allegations of murder on the death of his fifth child.
For Gordon, it was still another episode that had become a life of crime. Born in Birmingham in 1974, Gordon and his family left Florida When he was a child where he lived at several addresses in Miami, including Browd and Miami-Dade County.
On 29 April 1989, then 14 years old and armed with kitchen knives and garden scissors, he attacked his neighbor, raped her by holding her hostage for more than four hours.
The US court documents explained in detail how the woman found her covering her face with a nylon stocking outside her bedroom as to why she came out of her room to check why her dogs were barking.
Documents say that when two young children were sleeping at the next door, Gordon ordered him back to the bedroom and demanded him. There he raped her and caught her against her wish in the property before running away.
After less than a month after a month, on 21 May, he broke into a separate house just six doors from his first hunting, while equipped with a flat-headed shovel in a robbery attempt.
After forcing his way, he picked up the knife at the house and found a man lying on the bed. The court documents suggest that, when the man woke up, Gordon beat him up with a shovel about his head and body.
Arrested for less than a month on 13 June, Gordon was accused with a count of armed kidnapping, four separate cases of armed sexual battery and a count of theft with a deadly weapon.
He was sentenced to 40 years and served 22 years at Florida Jail before returning to the UK in 2010.
There is very little information about her life over the next four years, until she met Marten at a sunshine shop in London in 2014, while she was acting at the East 15 drama school after a small career in journalism.
Two years later, the pair had a wedding ceremony in Peru, although it was not legally binding.
In the coming years, both of them removed themselves from the society, Marten’s friends questioned on social media, where their beloved ‘Tots’ had gone.
It is understood that the pair went to Ellford, East London, but was evicted and spent time staying in a campman and a festival-style tent, while welcoming their first child together.
But concerns were raised by social services, especially the couple gave a hospital false names and posed with “fake Irish accent”, while Marten was in labor.
The gamblers heard that Gordon blamed two police officers, who was called to a maternity ward in Wales in 2017, when Marten gave birth to one of Victoria’s elder brother -in -law.
Gordon had to be forcibly stopped during the incident, and a new father stepped into to help two female officers, before the police arrived to arrest him.
Giving evidence in the court, Gordon, who represented himself, did not mention his distressed past, but said to the gamblers: “Everyone faces challenges in life.”
Finally, after an incident of domestic violence in 2019, a judge found “the risk of damaging children from” exposure to physical violence between parents “, and all four children of the couple were removed from their care in 2022.
Given his decision to avoid the “mainstream” life, he tried his best to live under the radar. In August 2022, he was released from his home at Coldharborough Estate in Greenwich, to fail to pay rent, smoking damage and partially collapsed roof.
Nevertheless, Gordon once again attracted the police attention on 5 January 2023, when he and Marten left their burning car on the difficult shoulder of M61, with several burner phones and placenta in search of inside.
Search took place shortly after The couple welcomed a fifth child during the Christmas periodMedia appeals to detect their movements for Bolton, Liverpool, Essex, East Ham and eventually South Downs near Breeton appeal.
On 27 February, he was arrested after a nationwide manhint, both refused to reveal their child’s places despite arguments from the authorities.
On arriving at the Worthing Police Station, one appears to have proceeded to the clamp from the injured Gordon wheelchair, where he was sitting on the floor, complaining that his legs were hurting, when his feet were invited to tell “the story”.
Stating that he was receiving sub-centers treatment, he insisted that he had not committed any crime and was entitled to respect before asking for pills to help in his legs pain.
In a bachelor caught on the police camera, he said: “I think I am a scam. I think I am really a scumbing. I think I am a piece of S ***. I think I think I think I feel how I have been treated.”
Taking a witness stand, he claimed that Victoria would still survive, the police did not follow his car after he burst into flames on a motorway near Bolton.
“We were a little deranged. We were away from our head,” he said. “You have been harassed by two people.
Crying, he said: “At one point, I commented to my wife that we all should go together on a funeral pyre with the child.
“It is a terrible thing as we are seen, like demons.
“This is our child. She died. She has gone. We have to live with it. Our names have dragged through mud as we are skoms.”