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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Constance Marten set to appeal manslaughter conviction after Old Bailey guilty verdicts

Aristocrat Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon are set to appeal their convictions for killing their baby in a warped attempted to stop her being taken into care.

The 38-year-old former socialite is expected to mount a case in the Court of Appeal that her trial was unfair and claim Judge Mark Lucraft KC, the Recorder of London, allowed the jury to be prejudiced.

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