Sitting in the dock, Constance Marten shook her head as jurors were shown the moment police reached into the rubbish-filled shopping bag where she had stashed her lifeless daughter in an abandoned shed.
By her side was the man she calls her “soulmate” – Briton Mark Gordon, a convicted rapist 13 years her senior, who had previously been jailed for two decades after carrying out a brutal attack in the US when he was just a teenager.