The newborn baby of Constance Marten would have exhibited the leg for “Climate Cold Climate Stress” in the first days that spent camping in South Downs in January 2023, a jury has Haard.
Professor George Havenith, an expert in clothing and exposure to the cold, told the jury that the baby Victoria would have bone with a “substantial risk of hypothermia.”
Marten and the father of babies Mark Gordon are in the middle of a new trial at Old Bailey in London.
Negan cause or allow the death of a child and serious negligence homicide.
In their first judgment they were declared guilty of hiding the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice by not informing the death of their baby.
The court heard that they went to run after the police found a placenta in the back seat of their car, which caught fire in the M62.
After traveling by taxi from Liverpool, two nights spent in hotels in Harwich and another night in a taxi driving from London to Newhaven in Sussex.
Then they left the South Downs with a tent store of Argos and two summer sleeping bags.
I was renting at that time and the temperature in the next few days was approximately 7.5 ° C.
The decomposition body of babies was found in a plastic bag in a shed in a Brighton assignment almost two months later.
Professor Havenith told the jury that he had done a series of experiments in a climatic chamber at the University of Laughborough to recreate the conditions inside and outside the store.
He said the tent was a bit warmer than the exterior air temperature: “Within the store you get up to five degrees (Celsius) higher than the outside,” he said.
However, he said that without mates, anyone lying on the floor of the store would have bone.
“The store itself has no virtual and soil isolation,” he said.
He also conducted an experiment in which he asked two doctoral students to sit inside the store and discovered that in an hour they saw “water running through the walls of the store”, caused by the condensation of their breath.
Joel Smith Kc, by the Prosecutor’s Office, asked if the baby Victoria could have kept hot inside the coat of Constance Marten if everything had dried.
“With a dry coat, dry clothes, dry sleeping bag, there would be enough isolation to keep the baby safe,” said Professor Havenith.
But then he asked what would have happened if the clothes were law.
“Baby Marten, in the conditions studied, especially where moisture was present in the clothes both in the store and on the road to the south of Downs, it would have been exposed to a substantial substress substantial substantial that would have led to a substantial risk of hypothermia, the holy.”
Mark Gordon and Constance Marten deny all the positions.
Proportith’s evidence continues.
