The body of Constance Marten’s baby was found close to a public footpath, it has been reported.

According to the Daily Mail, police were tipped off by a local about the body and found the remains close to a public footpath, in an area not yet searched by police or rescue teams.

Search teams found the infant's body last night following a huge operation which began after Marten and Gordon were arrested in Stanmer Villas, Brighton, at about 9.30pm on Monday, February 27. A member of the public had seen them in a shop in Hollingbury Place and called 999.

They were initially arrested on suspicion of child neglect. They were later further arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. 

During a press conference this afternoon Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford of the Metropolitan Police Service said that, so far, police have been unable to confirm the baby’s gender.

He said the force believed the two-month-old “may have been dead for some time”.