On-the-run aristocrat Constance Marten tearfully told a court today how she would have preferred her child had gone into care if she could have "foreseen the circumstances" of the infant’s death. Under cross-examination, Marten was asked whether she was in a fit state to care for a child "with the clothes on your back and with limited resources and money."She replied: "We weren’t planning to stay like that… our plan went up in flames.
Marten told jurors that "plan B" was to stay in the UK and "lay low".Asked to elaborate on the plan to remain in the UK, Marten said: "I probably would not have stayed over here.Marten and Gordon wanted to keep baby Victoria for her first three months in the UK.
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