Live updates as the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon is set to continue.
www.theargus.co.uk
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Marten is remonstrating with the court that press attention to the case is 'seriously affecting witnesses'.
She added: 'I think people are exaggerating and making things up. It can affect cases.
'I think people think that we are really bad people. Having such media attention can affect people's witness statements.' "
Indeed.
Crying was heard on the South Downs as police hunted Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, a court hears.
www.bbc.co.uk
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"Sarah Hidden told a court she saw two people resembling the couple on a coastal path near Seaford, East Sussex, between 16 and 27 January, and heard cries a few days earlier."
A couple of days before she saw the two people she had heard the sound of a baby crying through her open window between about 01:00 GMT and 03:00, she said.
"I was asleep, but the crying woke me up. Two nights in a row," she told the jury.
"It seemed to be on the first night moving from West to East."
She said the crying lasted about thirty or forty minutes and was from the direction of Seaford Head Golf Course." (BBM)
IMO the jury will think Ms Hidden's evidence is worthless.
Some may wonder why the CPS called her. The answer is probably that they didn't know what the defence would say was the date of death.
Then there was Pauline Mason:
Jurors at the trial today were shown footage from January 12 last year of the moment a woman, alleged to be Constance Marten, walks over to a petrol pump and fills up a water bottle full of fuel
www.mirror.co.uk
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Pauline Mason told jurors that she had seen a man with a woman carrying a lifeless baby in a sling in Stanmer Park in Brighton on February 19. Mrs Mason, who had been in a mobility scooter, had described the baby as being very pale with her head "wobbling", "floppy" and "unsteady". On Monday, her husband of 55 years told jurors that she had insisted on telling police about the alleged sighting because she had failed to make a report about the Babes in the Wood murders of two girls in Brighton years before."
Just a general point, but in cases that receive a lot of publicity it's normal for the police to be contacted by numerous "witnesses" who, shall we say, have a lot of difficulty in distinguishing between their lives and what's on the television.
And we saw that guy shout "Murderer" at MG outside the Old Bailey, which sadly is indicative of how many media consumers think.
ETA: has CM been discharged from the witness box?
