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Jury retires in Constance Marten and Mark Gordon retrial

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Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are accused of manslaughter by gross negligence.

The couple deny manslaughter and causing or allowing the death of a child.

The newborn was discovered dead two days later in a shopping bag in a shed in Brighton .

She had died in a tent in the South Downs in January 2023 .

Gordon and Marten were found guilty at an earlier trial of concealing the birth of a baby.

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