Rich Constance Marten And his partner, a convict rapist, has been asked to pass the note and talk to each other as he was being sentenced to death of his newborn girl.
Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, were earlier Manslator, child cruelty, found guilty of concealing a child’s birth and completing the course of justice,
The verdict came after two tests, with six months.
On Monday, on his sentence in Old Bailey, London, Judge Mark Lucraft Casey repeatedly warned of “disintegration” as the lawyers reduced to him.
The couple were seen talking to each other, pointing, and notes passing in the dock.
Judge Lusraft told the couple that their behavior showed the court “complete lack of respect”.
When Marten complained that she “deserved a pen”, the judge said she was trying to listen to her barrister’s submission and was “very distracted”.
Solving for Marten, Tom Godfrey expressed “sadness and repentance” for what happened to Victoria, saying that his grief was “incompatible”.
He argued that any “careless conduct” was limited to the tent where Baby Victoria died and the child was “insufficient evidence”, which the child was suffering in earlier days and was ignored.
He read a string of testimony from character witnesses, including Marten’s mother, Virgin de Seliers, sitting in a court well.
In her statement, Mrs. de Sellers said she was “afraid” how her daughter was painted during her tests, saying that it did not reflect “that daughter does not remember”.
He said: “What do I know that she showed sheer determination while fighting for her children and her daughter Victoria.
“It is my honest hope that when his future is considered, his courage and a deep sense of loyalty and fairness is not ignored.”
Shaman for Gordon, Philippa Mattasani Casey said that when he kept in mind the elder brothers and siblings of Victoria before he was born, he had “very upset and worrying”.
She told the court: “She says that the children were stripped and impressed everything, affected their entire life, and they were suffering from a shock, and he admits that poor decisions were made from whom they regret it.
“He said that he will stay with it for the rest of his life.”
It was argued by both the defenders that the judge should reject the prosecution case that Baby Victoria died of hypothermia and Admit she smiled accidentallyAs he claimed.
Earlier, the court had heard how defendants exposed Victoria under dangerous conditions when they hid to avoid taking care, as four other brothers were first.
Police started a nationwide hunting after bursting in flames on a motorway near his car. bolt onGreater Manchester, on 5 January 2023.
The defendants traveled all over England and went off-grindSleeping in a tent South downs Where the child Victoria died days later.
After seven weeks on the run, the defendants arrested Brighton,
After a desperate discovery, Police found their child dead in the midst of rubbish inside a lidal bag In a dissatisfied shed nearby.
Victoria’s remains were very disintegrated to establish the cause of death.
The prosecution stated that she had died of hypothermia from hypothermia in cold and moist conditions, which was inside the tent of the tent or Marten was warned by social activists about the dangers.
The defendants claimed that his daughter’s death was a tragic accident after Marten slept on him.
In the first trial in 2024, the gamblers were not told about the violent past of Gordon, which only partially revealed in their second trial.
In 1989, Gordon, then at the age of 14, held a woman against her will in Florida for more than four hours and She raped by armed with knives and hedge clippers,
Within a month, he entered another property and committed another crime that included stimulated batteries.
Gordon, who moved to America with his mother from Birmingham at the age of 12, was sentenced to 40 years in jail and was released after 22 years.
In 2017, Gordon was convicted of attacking two women police officers in a maternity unit in Wales, where Marten gave birth to her first child under a fake identity.
The gamblers were not told that Gordon also suspected an incident of domestic violence in 2019, which left Marten with a shattered spleen.
Gordon refused to allow paramedics in his London flat, when he emerged during a legal argument, when he fell out of a window when he was pregnant for 14 weeks.
He spent eight days in the hospital and then put his life and his unborn child at risk, trying to discharge himself, with the support of Gordon, it was alleged.
It was after the incident that the family court decided that other children of the couple should be kept in mind.
When Marten became pregnant for the fifth time, He kept it secret, gave birth in a rented leave cottage Christmas eve at 2022.
The efforts of the defendants to wrap Victoria motivated the lead police warning after being found near their abandoned car near a placenta bolt on On 5 January 2023.
During the run, Victoria was briefly globally on CCTV footage in London, the same teddy beer motif babygro was later recovered with his body inside the lidal bag.