Constance Marten has complained that she’s “treated like a killer” in jail and brands her prosecutors like soul-sucking “Dementors.”
Posh prisoner Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, were convicted of gross negligence manslaughter after the death of their baby girl.
Central NewsConstance, 38, was convicted of the gross negligent manslaughter of her daughter Victoria today[/caption]
Central NewsHer partner Mark Gordon, 51, was also convicted of gross negligent manslaughter[/caption]
Central NewsThe baby died while the couple lived ‘off-grid’ in freezing conditions[/caption]
Central NewsConstance Marten told police that Victoria had died after she fell asleep while holding her[/caption]
In a bitter rant to The View Magazine, a publication promoting reform for women in custody, Marten moaned about being “treated like a killer” in jail.
This is despite being found guilty over the death of her baby daughter.
Marten and rapist boyfriend Gordon were convicted after their newborn Victoria was found dead in a Lidl shopping bag.
Speaking from behind bars, Marten was very critical of her prosecutors and bizarrely told the prison magazine that they reminded her of the soul-sucking creatures in Harry Potter.
She said: “It was his voice. I just couldn’t bear it anymore.
“Tom Little and Joel Smith remind me of Dementors from Harry Potter.
“There’s no empathy. I felt like I was being grilled as a serial killer.“
The 37-year-old aristocrat is locked up in HMP Bronzefield alongside notorious child murderers Lucy Letby and Beinash Batool following a four-month retrial at the Old Bailey.
She complained about being spoken to like a child and accused legal teams of trying to “make angels look like devils and devils appear angelic”.
Marten added: “They all use this disgusting tone, like they’re reprimanding a small child.
“I’ve heard them laugh and joke with others, but with me, it’s always condescending.
“I just shut down because no one wants to be spoken to like that. People say, ‘Oh, they’re just doing their job’, but they’re not.
“They’re paid to make angels look like devils and devils appear angelic.”
The mum barely mentioned her daughter, who prosecutors believe died from hypothermia or suffocation in a flimsy tent after the couple went on the run.
Marten and Gordon sparked a nationwide manhunt in early 2023 after fleeing with their newborn, desperate to avoid the baby being taken into care like their previous four children.
When asked about using pseudonyms while off-grid, she gave the excuse: “The police give people aliases all the time under witness protection.
“That doesn’t make me a liar. I was trying to protect myself and Victoria.”
Marten gave birth to Victoria without seeking any medical assistance in early 2022 and kept her “their little secret”.
The infant had hardly any clothes or means of keeping or remaining warm.
Victoria, who spent “much of her life” in a Lidl bag for life, was tragically discovered dumped among rubbish in a shed near Brighton.
A jury found the pair guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after hearing harrowing details of how they ignored warnings and lived “off-grid”.
In a police interview, Marten later said: “I had her in my jacket and I hadn’t slept properly in quite a few days and erm, I fell asleep holding her sitting up and she, when I woke up, she wasn’t alive.”
Jurors were told Marten had been warned by social workers about the risk of falling asleep with a baby lying on her and that a tent was unsuitable.
Both she and Gordon lost their appeal against the child cruelty convictions and are due to be sentenced in September.
This comes as…
Constance Marten and lover found GUILTY over death of baby daughter after living off-grid in freezing temps while on run
Chilling footage shows Marten and partner Mark Gordon after they dumped their newborn baby’s pram
Gordon revealed to be an evil rapist
‘Wealthy’ Marten and Gordon used trust money for cabs while evading cops – but baby had no clothes before death
The harrowing moment cops find remains of baby Victoria stuffed in a Lidl bag filled with rubbish
A national safeguarding panel is now looking at the case as police have called for new laws to protect unborn children
Marten was a former Tatler “It Girl” and her family had close links to the Royals.
But her life spiralled out of control after she and Gordon, 51, met by chance in a North London incense shop in 2014.
The couple went off the radar from her friends and family and formed their own self-styled cult living apart from society, with Constance even posing as an Irish traveller when she attended hospital while pregnant.
Constance also travelled the world and went to festivals including Burning Man and Wireless, saying: “Dance is my oxygen.”
She spent her summer holidays in 2010 working for a film production company in Cairo.
One of her colleagues there described her as being “very decent, nice and friendly” and having “great potential”.
But she added that Constance sometimes chose the “wrong” type of man, adding: “She was somehow gullible.”
During the trial, it was revealed that Gordon was convicted of a series of sexual offences – including rape – while living in the US.
Gordon, who was 14 at the time, broke into the house of a next door neighbour wearing a nylon stocking over his face and armed with a knife and hedge clippers.
He demanded the woman undress and attempted to rape her before carrying out the vile offences in the April 1989 horror.
The victim of his crime told the BBC she was “floored” when she found out the man who attacked her 36 years ago was on the run from police in the UK in 2023.
She said: “The four-and-a-half hours I spent with him was enough to know he is evil.”
On May 21 the same year, Gordon broke into another home with a shovel and battered a man inside.
The fiend was sentenced in the US to 40 years in prison, of which he served 22 years.
In 2017, Gordon was convicted of assaulting two female police officers at a maternity unit in Wales.
Jurors were not told that Gordon was also suspected of a incident of domestic violence in 2019 which left Marten with a shattered spleen.
Central NewsIn 2021 a judge ordered her four children should be adopted, shortly before she fell pregnant with Victoria[/caption]
Central NewsThe couple would carry Victoria around in a Lidl bag after getting rid of their pram[/caption]
Central NewsHer arrest came following a 54-day manhunt[/caption]
Timeline of baby ‘killing’ – how couple evaded cops
CONSTANCE Marten and Mark Gordon allegedly sparked a 54-day manhunt across the UK after vanishing with their baby Victoria.
Here’s how the pair’s journey began…
December 20, 2022
Marten and Gordon booked into a holiday cottage in Northumberland, with the rental due to end on Boxing Day. The owner told jurors he found the property in “something of a state” on December 28.
December 24, 2022
The couple claim their baby daughter was born this day but this has been disputed by prosecutors.
December 28, 2022
Their Suzuki broke down on the M18 motorway so a recovery driver took them to a nearby Sainsbury’s. There was allegedly no sign of the baby but the back and side windows of the car had been blocked by clothing.
January 4, 2023
Marten and Gordon checked into the Ibis hotel at the Lymm Services in Cheshire then later the AC Hotel in Manchester.
January 5, 2023
The couple’s Peugeot 206 catches fire on the M61 motorway in Greater Manchester. Police launch an urgent probe after finding placenta, burner phones and Marten’s passport, jurors were told.
She and Gordon are taken to a Morrisons store in Bolton by a member of the public before being seen on CCTV at the nearby Bolton Interchange station.
The couple allegedly use Marten’s trust for a taxi to Liverpool, then a £400 cab to Harwich in Essex.
Cab driver Ali Yaryar, who picked the couple up from Liverpool, told the court: “I think the baby had no clothes”.
January 6, 2023
The couple arrive in Harwich and check into a Premier Inn at around 3am. They later move to the Fryatt Hotel, where they paid in cash, it was said.
January 7, 2023
Marten and Gordon travel by taxi to Colchester then to East Ham in London. The couple allegedly buy a buggy from Argos then grab another cab to Whitechapel.
They ate in a Brick Lane restaurant then dump the new buggy – choosing instead to keep Victoria in a Lidl bag, jurors heard.
January 8, 2023
The couple spend £475 on a taxi from Hornsey to Newhaven in East Sussex and walk to the South Downs National Park.
January 9, 2023
Both Marten and Gordon claim baby Victoria died on this day – making her 16 days old, the court was told. It is said there is no way of knowing this for sure.
January 12, 2023
Marten is captured buying snacks and petrol with cash but there was no sign of the baby. Prosecutors say she bought the fuel to cremate the baby but changed her mind.
January 16, 2023
Marten and Gordon are seen setting up a tent in Stanmer Park Nature Reserve in the South Downs despite the cold weather.
February 16/17, 2023
The couple are spotted near Hollingbury Golf Course in rural Sussex allegedly pushing a buggy with no baby. Their tent is later seen in Coldean Lane in Brighton
A driver sees the pair walking towards Stanmer Park with something under Marten’s puffer jacket, the court heard.
February 19, 2023
Gordon and Marten are allegedly seen in their tent in the park with a very young baby with a “wobbly” head. Jurors told the baby had no socks, blanket or hat on.
February 27, 2023
The couple are arrested in Hollingbury Place in Brighton but do not reveal Victoria’s location at first, it is said.
March 1, 2023
Tragic Victoria is found dead in a Lidl bag covered in rubbish inside a disused shed “like refuse”, the court is told.
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