An aristocrat has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for killing her newborn baby and dumping her remains in a shed.

Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, went on the run after their daughter Victoria was born in late 2022.

They were hiding from the authorities over fears she would be taken into care, as their four other children had been before.

The defendants went off-grid and made their way across England after their car caught fire on the M61 near Bolton, Greater Manchester, on January 5, 2023.

Eventually they made it to the South Downs and slept in a tent where baby Victoria died days later.

Marten and Gordon were arrested in Brighton after seven weeks on the run. Police found baby Victoria’s body inside a Lidl bag amongst other rubbish in a disused shed days later. A jury

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