An aristocrat and her partner are facing two more charges after their daughter’s death.
Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were charged with manslaughter by gross negligence on March 2 after the body of two-month-old Victoria was found in Brighton. They were also charged with concealing a child’s birth and perverting the course of justice.
Before a hearing at the Old Bailey on Monday (July 10), it emerged that the defendants face new charges of child cruelty and causing or allowing the death of a child. It is claimed they caused the baby’s death by their own “unlawful act” or failed to “take such steps as could reasonably have been expected” to protect the baby.
