Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Face Retrial Over Baby Death

LONDON—A couple whose newborn baby died after they went “off-grid” to hide the pregnancy from social services face a retrial for gross negligence manslaughter in March 2025. It can also be reported for the first time that Constance Marten, 36, and Mark Gordon, 49, were both convicted of concealing the birth of a child and perverting the court of justice by the jury at the Old Bailey last week. On Wednesday the Recorder of London, Judge Mark Lucraft, KC, lifted reporting restrictions which prevented the reporting of the partial verdicts at the end of the trial. Last week Judge Lucraft discharged the jury which had deliberated for 72 hours and 33 minutes but was unable to reach a verdict on the charge of gross negligence manslaughter....