Where is your child?'...footage of fugitive arrest

JURORS were yesterday shown a dramatic video of the moment fugitive aristocrat Constance Marten was arrested in the street and asked: "Where is your child?"

- Emily Pennink

Marten, 36, and her partner Mark Gordon, 49, had allegedly been living with their newborn baby in a tent on the South Downs while on the run from police.

Police found the pair in the Hollingbury area of Brighton after a member of the public spotted them.

Rubbish

The Old Bailey heard the couple would not say where baby Victoria was and her body was later found in a supermarket bag covered in rubbish in a disused shed.

Sgt Robert Button was among the officers who arrested the pair at 9.35pm on February 27 last year.

His body-worn video, played to the court, showed the moment they were arrested on suspicion of child neglect. 

Sgt Button approached Gordon and said: "Hello. Sorry mate, can you stop for a second? Stop all right, I need to speak to you."