HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - The Untold Story

Teenagers plead guilty to murdering 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa in machete attack on Woolwich bus

The teenagers pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to murder of schoolboy on London double-decker

Evening Standard · May 23, 2025

Aristocrat Constance Marten's partner Mark Gordon ends evidence early in baby manslaughter trial

Mark Gordon told the court ‘I’m finished with my testimony’ as he returned to the Old Bailey witness box

Evening Standard · May 23, 2025

Constance Marten’s partner refuses to answer prosecution questions

Marten and Mark Gordon are charged with the manslaughter of their baby daughter Victoria, who died in a tent on the South Downs in 2023.

Evening Standard · May 23, 2025

Sleeping in tent with new baby ‘not reasonable parenting decision’, court told

Baby Victoria died from hypothermia or was smothered while co-sleeping in a ‘flimsy’ tent with Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, it is alleged.

Evening Standard · May 14, 2025

Aristocrat Constance Marten refuses to continue cross-examination in trial over baby death

Jurors were told the mother, who is accused of gross negligence manslaughter of her newborn daughter, will not give any more evidence

The Independent UK · May 13, 2025

Constance Marten calls time on cross-examination

The 37-year-old is on trial with Mark Gordon, 50, charged with the manslaughter of their daughter Victoria in early 2023.

Evening Standard · May 13, 2025

Constance Marten tells jury aristocratic family member ‘doesn’t want me alive’

The mother, who standing trial over the death of her baby while on the run, believes she was followed by private investigators who tampered with her car, a court heard

The Independent UK · May 8, 2025

Constance Marten says her family ‘will stop at nothing to get what they want’

Marten, 37, and her partner Mark Gordon, 50, deny the gross negligence manslaughter of their daughter Victoria.

Evening Standard · May 8, 2025

Mark Gordon to represent himself in retrial over death of baby with Constance Marten

Ms Marten claims she did not report their baby’s death as they camped off-grid on the South Downs because she did not want to be branded an ‘evil mother’

The Independent UK · May 6, 2025

Mark Gordon to represent himself in trial over death of baby girl, court told

Judge tells jurors at the Old Bailey that Gordon’s previous barrister has ‘withdrawn’ from the case

Evening Standard · May 6, 2025