Constance Marten tells Old Bailey trial she went on run after 'my children were stolen by the state'

Aristocrat Constance Marten claimed her children were “stolen by the state” as she began giving evidence in her Old Bailey baby manslaughter trial.

Marten, 37, and her partner Mark Gordon, 50, are accused of the manslaughter of their fifth child, Victoria, when they went on the run from authorities in late December 2022.