Footage played in court shows moment remains of Constance Marten's baby found

A court has been shown the moment police discovered the body of a missing baby girl in the trial of wealthy aristocrat Constance Marten.

The 36-year-old 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 following a national search which begin in Bolton. Days later, police made the grim discovery of the child's remains in a disused shed on an allotment near to where they had been detained.

On Wednesday, the defendants sat in the Old Bailey dock as police bodyworn video was played of the moment baby Victoria was finally found on the afternoon of last March 1. Officers were shown on camera carefully probing the large red shopping bag which had been placed on decking outside the shed on Lower Roedale Allotments.

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They were seen pulling out pieces of rubbish to reveal 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, he 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Inside there was a tent, out-of-date milk and bread on a makeshift table and the shopping bag underneath, he said.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