Child killer Constance Marten 'barred from calling lover or sending him letters', prison source claims

Daily Mail​

13 hours ago

Killer Constance Marten has been banned from calling her lover Mark Gordon or sending him letters from jail, a prison source claims.
The pair are awaiting sentence for the manslaughter by gross negligence of their newborn daughter, Victoria, in 2023.
A source said Marten, 38, had expected to be able to contact Gordon, 51, who is being held at HMP Belmarsh, once the trial had concluded.
However, HMP Bronzefield's inmate system states inter-prison phone calls and letters from her have been barred by officials.
'Inter-prison calls are not difficult to arrange,' the source said. 'Prisoners are quite often allowed to phone family members that are in different establishments.
'Once security have given the thumbs-up, it's up to the officers on the two units to arrange it. It's simple and something that happens on a semi-regular basis, but with Constance and Mark staff have been told there's not a chance.
'Prisoners are allowed to write to whoever they want to. But just because they pop it in the post bag it doesn't mean it is going to get there. Every letter is read by security. Constance is going to be fuming when she finds out Mark isn't getting any of them.'
Marten and Gordon were last month found guilty of causing the death of Victoria after going on the run in December 2022 in a bid to prevent social services taking the baby into care.
'Inter-prison calls are not difficult to arrange,' the source said. 'But with Constance and Mark staff have been told there's not a chance.' Marten is awaiting sentence in unit four of women-only HMP Bronzefield (pictured) which also houses fellow child-killer Lucy Letby
They were also convicted of concealing the birth of a child, perverting the course of justice and child cruelty.
The couple's four other children had already been taken from them largely due to concerns about convicted rapist Gordon's behaviour, it emerged in court.
He was also found by a judge to have caused Marten to fall out of a window in 2019, shattering her spleen.
Marten is awaiting sentence in unit four of women-only HMP Bronzefield, which also houses fellow child-killers Lucy Letby and Beinash Batool.
A spokesman for Sodexo, which runs the institution, said it could not comment on individual prisoners.