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PA mediaThe jury has retired to consider its decision in the retric of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, both accused of killing their newborn Victoria with gross negligence.
The pair became the subject of a police manhint in 2023 when the authorities found evidence of birth recently in a burnt car near Bolton.
They were found on 27 February 2023 and the newborn was discovered two days later in a shopping bag in an allocation shed in the Hallingbury area of ​​Brighton. In January 2023, he died in a tent on the south.
Gordon, 51, and Marten, 38, both reject both carelessly and cause or allow a child’s death.
Gordon and Marten were found guilty in the prosecution before completing the curriculum of justice by not hiding the birth of a child and not reporting his death.
In that case, the jury could not come on the decision on the outstanding allegations.
A retric on Old Bailey in London began in March.
