A British aristocrat and his partner sentenced to 14 and 18 years in prison for having killed his baby

Constance Marten, a British aristocrat, of a family close to the royal family, and his partner, Mark Gordon, was sentenced on Monday, September 15 in London to 14 and 18 years of detention by homicide after the death of his baby.

The judge insisted on the “negligent behavior” and the “shameless contempt” of the couple for the risks that the baby run, which was sleeping in a tent in the middle of the winter during a race that lasted several weeks.

The very publicized story throughout the channel had begun in early January 2023 when the police discovered a vehicle in northern England.

“The investigations revealed that Constance and Mark were the occupants of the car and that Constance had given birth very recently, perhaps one or two days before, and that they had not been examined by health professionals,” the police said at that time.

A two months hunt

Then, the police began hunting the couple throughout the country to Brighton, in the Channel de Côtes de la on the British side, passing through London. The photos of the escape couple, who move through the taxis paid in cash, had been transmitted in the British press.

In particular, we saw Mark Gordon buy a tent and the police had been able to confirm the purchase of sleeping bags. The researchers said they feared that the child had to undergo difficult living conditions in the cold of British winter. The couple was arrested in February 2023 without their baby.

A link with Elizabeth II

The history of this escape has noticeably attracted the attention of the British media because Constance Marten, 35, comes from the British aristocracy. His grandmother was the mother of Elizabeth II’s mother, the “Mother Queen.” His partner, Mark Gordon, 48, was sentenced to twenty years of detention in the United States for violation committed when he was 14 years old, at the end of the 1980s.

After his release from the prison, he was expelled to the United Kingdom in 2010. Constance Marten would have cut the bridges with his family in 2016 after meeting the former prisoner, when he was a theater student, according to The Guardian.