Baby would still be alive ‘if I stayed with car’, van driver tells Constance Marten and Mark Gordon jury

A van driver who stopped to help a wealthy aristocrat and her partner after their car burst into flames believes their baby would still be alive if he had stayed with the family.

Ken Hudson was behind a Peugeot 206 carrying Constance Marten, 36, Mark Gordon, 49, and their newborn daughter Victoria when it caught fire on the M61 motorway in Greater Manchester. The eyewitness called the police and fire brigade and stayed at the scene for 10 minutes before leaving the family at the side of the road, a court heard.

But the couple fled with the child before