£10k reward to find missing couple and baby last seen in Sussex

It has been a month since the car Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were travelling in was found on fire on the hard-shoulder of the M61, officers said.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson added: "Detectives have been tirelessly working to trace the family and have tracked them to Newhaven in East Sussex. They were dropped off in a taxi at 4.56am on Sunday, January 8, just outside the entrance to the port. They then walked to where the A259 crosses over the B2109. They were seen sheltering from the rain, under the overpass, at about 6am.

“At around 6.15am on Sunday, January 8, they walked along Cantercrow Hill into the fields beyond. They were carrying a number of bags and their blue tent, and officers believe they have been camping in the area subsequently, although given the time that’s passed they could have moved on some considerable distance.