A British woman from an aristocratic family and her convicted rapist partner face jail Monday over the manslaughter of their newborn daughter who died while they were living off-grid in freezing temperatures.

Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, were arrested after a seven-week police hunt in January and February 2023 during which they spent time living in a tent.

The pair were convicted in July at London's Old Bailey central criminal court, where they had faced a retrial after another jury had failed to reach a verdict on the manslaughter charge.

Marten and Gordon went on the run to try and keep their daughter Victoria after authorities took their four other children into care.

The couple were eventually arrested two months later, in Brighton on England's southern coast.

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