Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon have been convicted of the gross negligence manslaughter of their newborn baby.

Marten, 38, and Gordon, 51, went on the run with daughter Victoria in early 2023 after their four other children were taken into care.

Police had launched a nationwide hunt after their car burst into flames on the motorway near Bolton, Greater Manchester.

The couple travelled across England and went off-grid, sleeping in a tent on the South Downs where baby Victoria died.

After seven weeks on the run, the defendants were arrested in Brighton, East Sussex.

Following a desperate search, police found their baby dead amid rubbish inside a Lidl bag in a disused shed nearby.

Victoria’s remains were too badly decomposed to establish the cause of death.

The prosecutio

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