Moment cops uncover body of baby hidden in Lidl bag shown in court

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Footage of the moment a missing baby girl was found dead amid rubbish stuffed inside a Lidl supermarket bag has been shown in the trial of aristocrat Constance Marten.Marten, 36, and her partner Mark Gordon, 49, had refused to tell police where their daughter Victoria was after the fugitive couple were tracked down by police to Brighton, East Sussex.Days later, police discovered the child's remains in a disused shed on an allotment near to where they had been detained.On Wednesday, February 14, the defendants sat in the Old Bailey dock as police body-worn video was played of the moment baby Victoria was finally found on the afternoon of last March 1.

Officers were shown on camera carefully searching the large red shopping bag which had been placed on decking outside the shed on Lower Roedale Allotments.The cops were seen pulling out pieces of rubbish, before they eventually found the baby, whose body was blocked out on the video.

PC Allen Ralph, who had been sent from Scotland Yard to help in the search, told jurors he had already seen earlier CCTV footage of the distinctive Lidl bag before he was deployed with a colleague to search the allotments.As he approached the disused shed, PC Ralph noticed a broken window and lifted the door to get in.

The first thing he noticed was the smell, he said: "I remember saying 'either something is dead in there or something has died'."Inside there was a tent, with out-of-date milk and bread on a makeshift table and the shopping bag underneath, he said.During a break, Pc Ralph commented to his partner that he was sure he had seen that bag before so they went back to take a closer look.He told jurors: "I lifted it and it was heavy and there was no reason for it to be heavy from what I