Constance Marten 'banned from contacting' fellow baby-killing lover

Constance Marten has been banned from all contact with her lover Mark Gordon as the pair await a sentence for the killing of their newborn daughter, a source has claimed.

Marten, 38, and Gordon, 51, were found guilty of the gross negligence manslaughter of their newborn daughter, Victoria, last month, more than two years after the tot's decomposing body was found in a shopping bag in Brighton. Marten is said to have expected she would be able to contact her fellow baby-killing lover from her new home at HMP Bronzefield once the trial concluded.

But a source at theprisonhas said she has been barred from multiple avenues of contact with Gordon, who is being held at HMP Belmarsh.

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The source told the Daily Mail that all inter-prison phone calls and letters from Marten to her lover have been banned, adding staff have been told there's "not a chance" the two can have contact. The source said: "Inter-prison calls are not difficult to arrange. 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."

The source added that Marten has been sending Gordon letters during her incarceration, but has yet to discover that none have been delivered to him.

They continued: "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 is said to still be longing for a future with Gordon, a convicted rapist who she calls her "Daddy Bear", and allegedly admitted in a jailhouse confession that she had tried to sabotage her retrial at the Old Bailey.

She had blurted out Gordon's previous rape convictions while being questioned on the stand, something she told fellow prisoners was "part of her plan". A prisoner inside HMP Bronzefield told the Mirror: "Constance still believes Mark Gordon is not the reason she is in this position.

She thinks they have a future together. She's still under his spell and she's admitted to trying to throw the trial. She blurted out his previous convictions on purpose. She said it was all part of her plan to get the trial thrown out."