Newborn who was ‘killed by aristocrat mum Constance Marten & dad as they evaded police’ is seen for first time in videos

A NEWBORN allegedly killed by her on-the-run mum and dad was seen for the first time today in CCTV footage shown to a court.

Baby Victoria died after she was taken across the country by Constance Marten, 36, and her partner Mark Gordon, 49, it is said.

The pair concealed the birth in 2022 then went “off-grid” – living in a “thin and flimsy” tent in the middle of winter, jurors heard.

Victoria, who spent “much of her life” in a Lidl bag for life, was later discovered dead inside an abandoned shed like she was “refuse”.

Police today released CCTV that shows baby Victoria’s face for the first time.

Previous footage shown to jurors usually has the newborn stashed under Marten’s coat wrapped in a towel or blanket.

She can be seen in a babygro with a flash of dark hair as Marten attends to her.

The mum had been waiting in a German doner kebab shop in East Ham, London, on January 7 last year while Gordon shopped for supplies, it is said.

When Gordon returns, the couple, who are both wearing face masks, chat together before Marten picks the baby up and puts her in a buggy.

Prosecutor Joel Smith told jurors: “You can see while Ms Marten is assembling the buggy the baby’s arms moving to her left.”

Other footage also shows the baby being handed to Marten as the couple arrived in London in a taxi.

Victoria’s tiny hands can be seen curling and moving around while her dad exits the car.

A 54-day hunt was launched for the pair after their burning car was discovered on the M61 motorway in Greater Manchester on January 5.

Officers found placenta wrapped in a towel, “new baby” nappies and newborn clothing, as well as “burner phones”, it is said.

A missing person‘s enquiry was launched, which became “bigger and bigger news” as time went on, jurors were told.

But instead of contacting police, Marten and Gordon allegedly instead tried to hide their whereabouts over fears Victoria would be taken into care like their four other children.

The couple allegedly travelled across England – including spending £400 on a taxi from Liverpool to Essex using “wealthy” Marten’s trust fund.

Marten, whose family lived at Dorset estate Crichel House, received nearly £19,000 in payments into her account from the trust while on the run.

Her father was a page to the late Queen, while her grandmother was a goddaughter to the Queen Mother.

Despite this, jurors were told the couple chose to “deprive the baby of what she needed” – including “warmth, shelter and food and ultimately safety”.

In the middle of a “cold winter and in cruel and obviously dangerous weather conditions”, the pair “essentially went off-grid”.

Jurors heard they lived in a tent with barely any clothes and no means of keeping warm and dry.

With “scarcely” any food, Marten and Gordon remained on the run, failed to seek medical assistance or even register the birth as they moved from “location to the location”, it was said.

Prosecutor Tom Little KC said the case involved “the entirely avoidable death of a young baby”.

Marten and Gordon deny manslaughter by gross negligence, concealment of the birth of a child, cruelty to a person under 16 and perverting the course of justice.

They also deny causing or allowing the death of a child, an alternative charge to manslaughter, between 4 January and 27 February last year.

The trial continues.