Talk:Disappearance of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon

Latest comment: 3 days ago by Doric Loon in topic Notability - depends on questions not answered

Update needed in January 2024

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I have added a (future) update needed tag because this article will need to be updated in January 2024, once this couple go on trial. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 06:45, 25 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Proposing the immediate deletion of the following paragraph until after completion of the trial,
"In 1989, aged 14, he broke into a neighbour's property and raped her at knifepoint. He was found guilty of "one count of armed kidnapping, four separate counts of armed sexual battery and one count of burglary with a deadly weapon". He served 20 years in prison before being deported back to the UK in 2010."
In accordance with the CPS who have stated the defendants are entitled to a fair trial!
https://www.cps.gov.uk/london-north/news/authorises-charges-against-constance-marten-and-mark-gordon Jaymailsays (talk) 22:50, 19 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
This is irrelevant to the current trial and does not affect its fairness. It is mentioned as it provides more information and some background/history on one of the subjects of the article. greyzxq talk 00:41, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

not relevant???

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the couple's four other children were taken into care . . . 70.26.172.188 (talk) 21:59, 7 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

She is getting old, and the 5th one could be the last one she will ever have...
She will do anything to keep the baby by her side!
No matter the outcome New hordak from 2018 (talk) 16:20, 14 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sentence on Constance Marten's parents

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The sentence describing Marten's family has a strange formation, along the lines of "Both her father and her mother had three sons, including her brother, Tobias." This implies uncertainty about the total number of siblings. Father had three sons. Mother had three sons. One son was named Tobias and was the brother of Marten. I believe the sentence creates an apparent logic puzzle out simple facts: Constance Marten's parents had three sons together as well as a daughter. The sentence should be rewritten to reflect this. Am I correct, or is the situation in fact more complex? Dettifoss (talk) 01:23, 19 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Notability - depends on questions not answered

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There is so much missing for this story to make sense. Why did they go off-grid? Why did the police start a man-hunt? People are allowed to go off by themselves without saying where they're going. After the baby was born, they were obliged to register the birth and get medical checks, so then they had committed an offence, but the police hunt began before the birth, so the baby was not the reason for it. The impression left by the news reporting was that her noble family didn't like her being with a black man and in some way forced them underground. What did the baby actually die of, and would it likely have lived if they had not been in hiding?

I'm struggling to be clear about why this story is notable at all. OK, it briefly got a lot of media attention, but if you leave out the sensatonalist stuff about her rich family and his race and criminal record, we're left with a sad but not particularly notable story about a cot death - unless the unanswered questions I just mentioned give the whole thing some bigger significance. Doric Loon (talk) 15:08, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply