Constance Marten and her boyfriend Mark Gordon broke cover after running out of cash and food, The Telegraph can reveal as the frantic search for their missing baby continued.

Ms Marten, 35, from an aristocratic family, and 48-year-old Mr Gordon had used a slush fund of thousands of pounds to live off grid and evade detection.

But it has emerged that they were forced to take increasingly desperate measures to get provisions after their cash ran out. They are understood to have survived on handouts from food banks for nearly a week before their arrest in Brighton on Monday.

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