Constance Marten, 37, and Mark Gordon, 50, have been found guilty at the Old Bailey of concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice. The verdicts can now be reported after legal restrictions were lifted.
The couple's newborn daughter, Victoria, was found dead, covered in rubbish inside a Lidl shopping bag in an allotment shed, after they fled authorities and travelled across England. They had gone off grid to evade authorities after their four other children were taken into care.
The pair now face a retrial on a charge of manslaughter by gross negligence, after a jury was discharged last week for failing to reach a verdict. They had denied all charges.
Over seven weeks, Marten and Gordon travelled from Bolton to Harwich, East Ham, and Newhaven, sleeping in a tent on the South Downs as police searched for the missing baby. Their burnt-out car was discovered on a motorway in Bolton in January 2023.
A nationwide search was launched, and two days after their arrests in Brighton last February, Victoria's decomposed body was found. The judge, Mark Lucraft, set a provisional retrial date from 3 March next year.
