Helena Wilkinson
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News Correspondent for @BBCNews - https://t.co/FiOlX7rWqe - [email protected] / 2024 - 2025 Senior Fellow @JSchofieldTrust
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Joined February 2015
RT @BBCNewsPR: The Big Cases – The Aristocrat, the Convict and the Missing Baby. This @BBCiPlayer special speaks to the family, friends, an….
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An aristocrat and her convict partner go on the run with their newborn baby. The search ends in heartbreak. Family, friends, and witnesses reveal the background to this extraordinary case.
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RT @MeghantheOwen: Brilliant insight from my colleague @bbchelena on the trials of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. Well worth a read.
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I covered Constance Marten and Mark Gordon's cases at the Old Bailey. Their trials were extraordinary. My piece below on what it was like:. I've never seen a case like Constance Marten and Mark Gordon's - it was jaw-dropping .
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Now the case is over, the BBC can report some of the remarkable moments when jurors weren't in court.
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Constance Marten and Mark Gordon guilty of gross negligence manslaughter of their baby - BBC News
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Their newborn baby Victoria was found dead in an allotment shed in March 2023.
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RT @DdesimoneDaniel: How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in the case of a spy who abused women.
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Security Service continued to provide misleading evidence even after its lie was exposed, BBC can reveal.
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Liverpool forward Jota, 28, dies in a car crash - BBC Sport
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Liverpool forward Diogo Jota dies in a car crash in Spain, along with his brother Andre Silva.
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RT @MartineBBC: A glimpse of St Paul’s Cathedral on the way back from the Old Bailey with @BBCHelena
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My wife and daughters left behind a legacy of love, John Hunt tells BBC - BBC News
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The racing commentator, speaking for the first time since the murder of his wife and two daughters, says their love has helped sustain him through grief.
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Suffolk MP Patrick Spencer pleads not guilty to sexual assault - BBC News
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He is accused of two attacks on two separate women in August 2023.
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RT @BBCWorld: British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say
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Vishwashkumar Ramesh is only passenger to survive the Air India crash that killed 241 people.
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📸 from recent rehearsals of our new streaming set in our London newsroom which launches today - official home to BBC News Live.
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RT @errongordon: Live from the heart of the BBC newsroom @BBCNews Live has launched in our new streaming production area .
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RT @DdesimoneDaniel: This began with a woman who’d been abused by an MI5 agent - so badly that she had a mental breakdown. Today MI5 is in….
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Judge's concerns came ahead of High Court hearing to decide next steps about false evidence.
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Russell Brand pleads not guilty to rape and assault - BBC News
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The broadcaster appears at a plea hearing after being accused of five charges relating to four women.
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Mark Gordon previously convicted of rape in US, Old Bailey retrial told - BBC News
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Gordon, who is on trial with his partner Constance Marten over the death of their child, was previously jailed in the US.
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Mark Gordon assaulted police officers on maternity ward, court hears - BBC News
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The alleged assault happened in the hours after Constance Marten gave birth to their first child.
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