Police have said that missing aristocrat Constance Marten's baby 'had been dead for some time' after remains were found following a major search for the two-month-old. Scores of officers from the Metropolitan Police and Sussex Police scoured 90 square miles of land near Brighton over the course of two days in search of the infant.
On Wednesday night, investigators revealed human remains had been found close to where Marten and her partner Mark Gordon were arrested on suspicion of child neglect earlier in the week. In a fresh update issued on Thursday afternoon, Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford said they had so far been unable to determine the gender of the dead child.
He said: "It's important to give the investigation team time and space to establish more details about the circumstances of the death. At this stage we have not been able to confirm the baby's gender and a post-mortem has not yet taken place.
