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The remains of a baby found in a wooded area Constance Marten: Police confirm body found in search of missing baby A body was found during a search for the newborn baby of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, police confirmed.
The remains of a baby were found in a wooded area near where the aristocrat and his companion were detained on Monday.
The couple remain in custody after being arrested on suspicion of child neglect and grossly negligent manslaughter.
Sussex Police Chief Superintendent James Collis said the announcement would be "heartbreaking" for the local community.
He said: "I understand that the conclusion of this investigation will be heartbreaking for the local community and the general public who have been affected by and have supported this investigation from the beginning."
Sussex Police and Metropolitan Police officers had traveled 90 square miles of countryside, working day and night using helicopters, sniffer dogs, thermal imagers and drones.
Marten, 35, comes from an aristocratic family with royal ties. A missing persons operation was launched after the car she and Gordon were traveling in was found abandoned and burnt down next to the M61 on 5 January.
At a press conference on Wednesday night, Sussex Police confirmed that a body had been found during the search for the missing baby of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon.
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A body has been found during the search for the missing newborn of runaway aristocrat Constance Marten.
An autopsy will be carried out in due course, according to detectives.
The 35-year-old woman and her partner Mark Gordon, 48, were arrested in Brighton on Monday night, following a search that spanned more than seven weeks sparked by the discovery of their burnt-out car on the M61 near Bolton.
The couple were arrested by Sussex Police after they were spotted by a member of the public, prompting an intensive search for their baby boy, who was not with the couple.
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A couple had previously been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence homicide
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Contact with our beloved daughter was intermittent. We knew she was living with someone who was making her very, very sick, although it took us years to find out the extent of this, writes Anne Atkins:
Hearing Marten's call, I was immediately taken to a friend's Christmas party. Seven or eight years ago, perhaps: good company, good food and drink, Christmas carols. I had fun as best I could. Until our gracious hostess asked about our daughter and I burst into tears so heartbreaking, wild and fast that I had to leave the room.
I screamed and pushed. Even long after I had calmed down enough to go back and apologize, I fell off my bike in the middle of the road on my way home. I hardly cared if I would get hurt or if traffic was coming.
I spent that Christmas and the month or two on either side not knowing if our daughter was alive or dead. Hearing this a little later, my husband said: “Of course, she was alive. We would have heard otherwise.
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Contact with our beloved daughter was intermittent. We knew she was living with someone who was making her very, very sick, though it was years before we found out the extent.
The aristocratic Marten family have made headlines in recent weeks after 35-year-old Constance Marten, her newborn son and her partner, a convicted rapist, became the subject of a "high-risk" missing person investigation.
Napier Marten had urged his daughter Constance to get to safety with the child as soon as possible.
Appealing to his daughter in January, Mr Marten said: "I want you to understand that you are very loved no matter what the circumstances." We are deeply concerned for her well-being and that of her baby."
Napier Marten sent a heartfelt appeal to his daughter to turn herself in
Fifty-three days after they were enfuis with a nouveau-né, the aristocratic disparage Constance Marten et son petit ami Mark Gordon ont finally été caught – avec l'aide d'un membre du public à l'extérieur d'un magasin from the corner.
The two were recognized by a passerby from the media calls, and police responded just six minutes later as they were walking down a nearby street in Brighton.
"Just after 9:30pm last night [Monday], a member of the public, shielded from media reports on the images of the couple, saw them outside Mulberrys convenience store in Hollingbury Place." Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford said at a news conference. .
"They saw the couple withdrawing money and dialed 999. The time between the recording of that call and the arrival of the police at the scene was six minutes."
He described Ms Marten and Gordon as "heavily dressed for outdoor activities" and said they underwent medical checks while in police custody.
Police responded six minutes after a member of the public recognized the couple's faces on the news.
Remains have been found in a wooded area following a major search for Constance Marten's two-month-old baby.
Hundreds of officers from the Metropolitan Police and Sussex Police, along with search and rescue volunteers, scoured 90 square miles of land near Brighton over the course of two days in search of the baby.
On Wednesday night, Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford told reporters the remains of a baby were found near where Marten and his partner Mark Gordon were arrested Monday on suspicion of child neglect.
The couple had been avoiding police for several weeks and were apprehended by officers at Stanmer Villas in the town, but the boy was not with them, prompting a widespread search in the Sussex bush.
Helicopters, sniffer dogs, drones and thermal imaging cameras were deployed during the two-day operation.
The discovery follows a two-day widespread search operation carried out by hundreds of officers across Sussex.
A friend of Constance Marten claimed that she previously warned the missing mother about the kind of men she "falls in love with" but "won't listen to anyone".
Noisette Tahoun, who worked at the same film production company as Marten in Cairo, Egypt, in 2010, said she was "not surprised" when she discovered the 35-year-old woman was missing.
The former colleague claimed that Ms. Marten would fall for men and not listen to warnings.
They left their burning car on the shoulder of the M61 and fled: an aristocrat, a sex offender and their baby, born a day or two earlier. From hell near Bolton, which would have destroyed all their possessions, they went first to Liverpool, then to Harwich in Essex, Colchester, and East Ham station in east London, in two days.
They were on the run for more than a month and on Tuesday, February 28, police confirmed that the couple had been arrested on suspicion of grossly negligent homicide.
CCTV footage of the family during one of their latest sightings on January 7 shows them in the East London area of Whitechapel, walking towards Brick Lane after 10pm CCTV footage shows Mark Gordon, 48, Constance Marten's rapist partner, 35, leaving an Argos after buying a tent, in which police believe the family slept with their newborn baby.
Their faces remain covered with face masks and balaclavas as they can be seen walking the streets of East London, Gordon in front and Marten behind pushing a blanket-covered buggy.
Her upbringing had all the trappings of high society, so how could Constance Marten have been on the run for weeks with a sex offender 13 years her senior? Tom Oough reports
Nigerian pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua was considered one of the most influential evangelists in Africa. Born into poverty on June 12, 1963, he suggested he was a "miracle child" after claiming he was in his mother's womb for 15 months.
As a young man, he spoke of heavenly visions from God, also claiming that he had been "prophesied" 100 years earlier.
One such vision led him to establish his own ministry in Lagos in 1987: The Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), which would become a megachurch in the city. At one point it welcomed 15,000 worshipers each Sunday with visitors from all over the world traveling to Lagos to see it in action.
His rise to prominence in the late 1990s coincided with the explosion of "miracle" shows broadcast on national television by various pastors.
He became one of the best-known televangelists in the country, mainly through the Christian television channel Emmanuel TV, and claimed to have cured all kinds of diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
TB Joshua, whose church has been linked to missing aristocrat Constance Marten, has claimed to have cured thousands of people, including former Arsenal and Nigeria striker Nwankwo Kanu.
More than seven weeks after their burning car was found abandoned on the side of the road near Bolton, Constance Marten and her partner Mark Gordon have been arrested on the south coast of England.
The couple had spent weeks living off the grid in an apparent attempt to evade authorities.
The couple, aged 35 and 48 respectively, were arrested at Stanmer Villas in Brighton on Monday night, police said.
The couple is believed to have traveled hundreds of miles since police began their search.
Metropolitan Police Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford (right) and Sussex Police Chief Superintendent James Collis (left) speak to the media during a news conference at police headquarters of Sussex on March 1, 2023 in Lewes, England.
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