negligence manslaughter. constance marten and her partner, mark gordon, who s a convicted sex offender, were found by police in brighton on monday after a member of the public reported seeing them. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has the latest. working their way slowly through allotments in north brighton, police officers from london searching for a missing baby. every shed and greenhouse was being checked with temperatures close to zero. 0fficers looking for an infant, who was born less than two months ago. the baby s parents, constance martin and mark gordon, were arrested last night after a police hunt that began injanuary. they are now being held on suspicion of gross negligence, manslaughter. they had been in this convenience store and were spotted by a member of the public who called 999. they were arrested just moments after this cctv camera caught them walking along a road that leads to the allotments and a golf course and the south downs beyond.
from herfamily in 2016 when she met mark gordon. he was convicted of rape in the united states, aged just 1a, and served 20 years in prison. police believe the baby was born in the back of a car in earlyjanuary. the couple came onto the police s radar on january 05, when their car caught fire on the m61 near bolton. from there the pair took a taxi to liverpool and another to harwich, arriving there on the morning of the 6th of january. by lunchtime on the 7th of january, they were in east london where they bought a tent from argos and abandoned their pushchair. they were then yet more taxi journeys, including a final one to the port of newhaven. since then they d evaded detection untiljust before 9:30 last night when a member of the public saw them and dialled 999. while detectives still hope the baby is alive, perhaps being looked after by someone else, they re becoming increasingly concerned, and constance martin s father has said that while he s relieved that she s been found, he is
parents have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. constance marten and her partner mark gordon, who s a convicted sex offender, were found by police in brighton on monday after a member of the public reported seeing them. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has the latest. working their way slowly through allotments in north brighton, police officers from london searching for a missing baby. every shed and greenhouse was being checked with temperatures close to zero. officers looking for an infant, who was born less than two months ago. the baby s parents, constance martin and mark gordon, were arrested last night after a police hunt that began injanuary. they are now being held on suspicion of gross negligence, manslaughter. they had been in this convenience store and were spotted by a member of the public who called 999. they were arrested just moments after this cctv camera caught them walking along a road that leads to the allotments and a golf co
shop in his home city of bangor. the idea of working in the university was originally his. he approached the academics, saying he wanted others to understand how a learning disability affects people and the way they feel. he s now looking at ways to develop his university work in the future. in the next half an hour or so we will be heading to brighton where we are expecting police to will be heading to brighton where we are expecting polic are expecting police to hold a news conference- are expecting police to hold a news conference. you are expecting police to hold a news conference. you see are expecting police to hold a news conference. you see the are expecting police to hold a news i conference. you see the microphones lined up there, about the missing baby after the arrest of constance martin and mark gordon. there will be in a statement from the metropolitan police and the sussex police who will be holding a joint
but there was no sign of the baby. as time progresses, as the weather is closing tonight, as it was last night, in terms of the cold and the coldness and the impact that would have on a baby, clearly the risk is getting higher and we have to be open to the fact that this may not end in the way we would like, but we need to remain hopeful. constance martin comes from a hugely wealthy family growing up in this country house in dorset. her father was so close to the royal family that in the 1970s he held the ceremonial role of third paige of honour to the late queen. injanuary, he made this appeal to his daughter. darling constance, even though we remain estranged at the moment, i stand by, as i have always done, and as the family has always done, to do whatever is necessary for your safe return to us. constance martin became estranged