Constance Marten’s mother makes plea over daughter’s ‘deep sense of fairness’

The mother of aristocrat Constance Marten has called for her daughter’s “courage, loyalty and deep sense of fairness” to be weighed up in the sentence for killing her baby daughter.

Virginie de Selliers sat in the well of the court on Monday when Marten and her convicted rapist partner Mark Gordon appeared at the Old Bailey.