By Tristan Kirk

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Aristocrat Constance Marten and her convicted rapist partner facing years behind bars when they are sentenced on Monday for killing their newborn baby while on the run from authorities.

Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, return to the Old Bailey to be sentenced over the death of daughter Victoria in early 2023.

The couple exposed Victoria to dangerous conditions when they went into hiding to avoid her being taken into care, as four other siblings had been before.

Police launched a nationwide hunt after their car burst into flames on a motorway near Bolton, Greater Manchester, on January 5, 2023.

The defendants travelled across England and went off-grid, sleeping in a tent on the South Downs where baby Victoria died days later.

After seven weeks on the run, the defendants were arrested in Brighton. After a desperate search, police found their baby dead amid rubbish inside a Lidl bag in a disused shed nearby.

A retrial jury found Marten and Gordon unanimously guilty of manslaughter in July.

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