A missing couple and their newborn baby have been spotted in east London, Metropolitan Police has confirmed.
Constance Marten, 35, and her partner Mark Gordon, 48, disappeared after the car they were travelling in broke down on the M61 near Bolton on Thursday, January 5, before leaving on foot with their baby boy. Police believe that Constance had given birth 'very recently' and that neither she nor the baby have been seen by doctors since.
In the days after their disappearance the family were spotted in Harwich and in Colchester in Essex, with police sweeping the city's hotels and B&B's to try and find them. In an update issued this morning (January 13), Met Police said detectives at Essex Police have established that the trio took a taxi from Harwich to East Ham station, in Newham in east London, on the morning of last Saturday (January 7).
