{"id":22579,"date":"2025-09-15T10:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/22579\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:51:06","slug":"sentencing-hearing-begins-for-constance-marten-and-mark-gordon-over-death-of-their-daughter-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/22579\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing hearing begins for Constance Marten and Mark Gordon over death of their daughter &#8211; latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecution reminds court of Gordon&#8217;s previous convictionspublished at 11:29 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:29 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Helena Wilkinson and Daniel Sandford<br \/>Reporting from the Old Bailey<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tom Little KC, for the prosecution, is now on his feet addressing the judge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marten and Gordon have now stopped talking to each other and are listening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Little reminds the judge that Gordon has a conviction from Carmarthenshire Magistrates\u2019 Court for two counts of assaulting a constable and one of failing to comply with his sexual offender notification requirements. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gordon was sentenced on 14 November 2017 to a total of 12 weeks\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He and Marten had attended the hospital giving false names and identities as Marten was giving birth to their first child. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When police attended the hospital and questioned Gordon about his identity he again gave a false identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then began to pace the room stating that he was confused. He refused to sit down and tried to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When officers tried to stop him, he assaulted two female police officers. He was eventually brought under control after being PAVA sprayed, and with the assistance of a member of the public who was on the ward.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prosecution reminds court of Gordon&#8217;s previous convictionspublished at 11:29 BST 11:29 BST Helena Wilkinson and Daniel SandfordReporting from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-22579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}