Missing baby couple arrested

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THE new parents who went missing with their baby on January 5 have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. As the Times went to press yesterday, the baby had still not been found.

The infant was born in early January and has had no medical attention since then, with its parents sleeping rough in freezing temperatures much of the time.

Detection

had handed themselves in earlier.

Mr Napier added: “It is an immense relief to know my beloved daughter Constance has been found, tempered by the very alarming news her baby has yet to be found.

“For whatever reasons she and her partner went on the run, the consequences of their actions have increased many fold. It would have been far better if they had handed themselves in earlier.”

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Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon were arrested in Brighton on Monday (February 27), initially on suspicion of child neglect after several weeks avoiding the police. They were later further arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.

The couple were detained after a 999 call by a member of the public who had seen media reports about the pair.

Since Marten and Gordon were arrested, more than 200 police officers have been engaged in the search for the two-month-old baby.

The pair were were arrested by officers six minutes after the 999 call was made.

Marten’s father said it is a huge relief that his daughter has been found, but it is ‘very alarming’ that her baby remains missing.

Napier Marten said he loves his daughter but it would have been ‘far better’ if she and Gordon

The police search for Marten, 35, and Gordon, 48, began on January 5 when their car was found on fire abandoned next to the M61 in Bolton. They used taxis to first travel to Liverpool, then Harwich in Essex, and on to east London, before arriving in Sussex on January 8.

The couple avoided detection by only making payments in cash, hiding their faces on CCTV and often moving around at night or in the early hours of the morning.

They were finally arrested at about 9.30pm on Monday.

Marten, who is from a wealthy aristocratic family, was a promising drama student when she met Gordon in 2016.

Since then the couple have led an isolated life, and in September, as Marten’s pregnancy progressed, began moving around rental flats. Gordon served 20 years in prison in the US for rape and battery committed when he was 14.

It is unknown if their baby was full-term or has any health issues.