Constance Marten has told the jury in his trial that “he absolutely loved her daughter and that she and Mark Gordon did everything possible to protect her.
He also said that four other children had “stolen by the State” bone, and described the reaffamily, of which he did not want to be part, as “intolerant.”
Marten, 37, and Mark Gordon, 50, deny Nigligence’s gross homicide and causing or allowing the death of a child.
They face a new trial at Old Bailey. Marten had her leg due to testing on Tuesday, but complained about teeth pain and headache.
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 couple’s victory baby, her fifth child, was found dead in a shed in a Brighton assignment, in a shopping bag covered in March 2023. His body was so bad decomposing that pathologists could not determine the cause of death.
His other four children had been tasks prior to attention.
Giving tests for the first time on Thursday, his lawyer Fitzgibbon KC asked Marten if he loved his daughter.
“Absolutely,” Marten replied.
“Did you do something to cause him to harm him?” Asked Mr. Fitzgibbon KC.
“Absolutely not. We did everything we could to protect it,” said Marten.
Now she was now felt for her daughter’s death.
Marten said: “I don’t think this process has really allowed me duel correctly. I still feel angry, annoying. It is still an element of shock.”
When asked about the couple’s other children, Marten said “he loved them extremely.”
“Not being with them is very, very hard.”
When Mr. Fitzgibbon KC asked if he agreed with the decisions made about taking the children, Marten said that “absolutely not … it is an absolute indignation,” and added that his children “stole the state.”
Marten told the jury that, since he was little, he always wanted to have a big family, adding that “at least seven children would be my dream.” She said she would have liked to live on a farm.
She said that with Mark Gordon about 10 years ago in a store in eastern London. “I classify it or see it as a destination,” he said.
When asked how he feels for him, he said: “I love him very much,” and added that he was “very dear” for her.
When asked if he would describe his background as privileged, Marten said “Financial yes, emotionally not all.”
She said she tried to introduce Gordon to members of her family, but found that they were “very cold” with him.
“I’ve always had an frozen relationship with my family.
“They can be quite intolerant. I really don’t want to be part of that,” he said.
“I really didn’t grow up with them,” he said. “I arrive at the boarding school when I was about eight years old.”
She said that when she became pregnant with Victoria, she and Gordon had planned to move for the first time to move, but the family intervened.
As a result, they left their home in London and lived in a series of hotels and Bed and breakfasts, he explained, and added that in the week before Christmas 2022, they rent a cabin in Northumberland.
On Christmas eve, purchases in the Baby team in Primark in Carlisle, where he began to feel that the baby came.
“I started having stabs more or less when we start leaving Carlisle,” he said.
She returned to the cabin and said they cooled to the bed above without medical assistance. “It was a very fast real, very easy, said.
Two days later, the family continued.
“Obviously, it would have a more pleasant bone to have a leg somewhere stable and have the legs capable of relaxing … but we keep it in that position,” he told the jury.
Previously at the trial, Gordon refused to give evidence in his defense.
Opening the defense for his client John Femi -la KC said: “I do not propose to call Mr. Gordon.”
The trial continues.
