Constance Marten and Mark Gordon: Couple arrested and ‘urgent search operation’ for missing baby

Missing couple Constance Marten and Mark Gordon have been found and arrested but an “urgent search operation” is under way for their baby.

Police say that at just before 9.30pm on Monday, a member of the public reported seeing them in Stanmer Villas, Brighton.

Sussex Police arrested them at that location and they remain in custody.

A search operation is taking place in the area for the missing baby.

The couple have been missing since January 5, shortly after Constance Marten is believed to have given birth.

Anyone with information that could assist is asked to call 999.

Missing Constance Marten and Mark Gordon with baby

Police inquiries began on January 5 when a report was made of a car fire on the hard shoulder of the M6 near junction four, at Bolton.

Detectives established that Constance Marten, 35, and Mark Gordon, 48, had been in the vehicle.

They believe Constance gave birth as little as one day earlier, and that she and the baby had not been assessed by medical professionals.

Missing persons investigation

Greater Manchester Police launched a missing persons investigation.

Officers believe the couple passed through Liverpool, Harwich and Colchester, before they were captured on CCTV near East Ham station in Newham on the morning of Saturday, January 7.

The Met Police, which took over the operation, traced the couple to Whitechapel Road.

Investigators became concerned they were sleeping in a tent in cold temperatures.

They were later seen in Flower and Dean Walk, near Brick Lane.

On January 8 they are thought to have travelled from Allison Road, in Green Lanes, Haringey, to Newhaven, near Brighton.

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon found

Police said in a statement early on Tuesday (February 28): “Shortly before 9.30pm on Monday, February 27, a member of the public reported a sighting of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon in Stanmer Villas, Brighton.

“Officers from Sussex Police attended the location and the pair were arrested. They remain in custody.

“The baby is still missing and an urgent search operation is taking place in the area.

“Anyone with information that could assist the search is asked to call 999.”