A £10,000 reward has been offered amid the search for a missing aristocrat, her newborn baby and her convicted sex offender partner.

Constance Marten, 35, and Mark Gordon, 48, have been ‘off grid’ since their car broke down on the M61 on January 5.

They are reportedly sleeping rough after buying camping equipment from an Argos in London.

Gordon was deported after serving a sentence for raping and beating a woman in her 20s in Florida when he was 14.

Through Constance, the couple have access to a multi-million pound trust fund which could allow them to remain on the run ‘for some time.’

Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford, of the Met Police, said: ‘We continue to be extremely concerned about the health and wellbeing of the newborn baby, which has had no medical care and has been on the move, and possibly exposed to sub-zero temperatures, for almost a month now.

‘We’re also concerned for the welfare of Constance and Mark because our enquiries suggest that they were constantly moving and awake for at least a few days – which must be especially draining on someone who had recently given birth with no medical attention.

‘Finding the baby is our top priority and we are now offering a £10,000 reward to anyone who provides information which leads to them being found.’

Police say the couple appear to have lots of physical cash, allowing them to avoid making digital payments that could be tracked.

Constance grew up on her family’s Crichel House estate in Dorset, which was put on the market for £100million in 2010 before its sale to a US buyer.

Her father, film and music producer Napier Martin, previously made a heartbreaking appeal for her to return home.

Appealing to his daughter in an audio message provided to the Independent, Mr Marten said: ‘Darling Constance even though we remain estranged at the moment, I stand by, as I have always done and as the family has always done, to do whatever is necessary for your safe return to us.

‘I beseech you to find a way to turn yourself and your wee one in to the police as soon as possible, so you and he or she can be protected. Only then can a process of healing and recovery begin, however long it may take, however difficult it may be.

‘I would like you to understand that the family will do all that is needed for your wellbeing. And I also wish you to understand you are much much loved whatever the circumstances.

‘We are deeply concerned for your and your baby’s welfare.’

Gordon, who had moved to America with his family in 1989, was jailed for 20 years before being deported back to the UK in 2010 where he would have had to sign on to the Sex Offenders’ Register.

Court papers also suggest he went on the run for six weeks before his arrest.

Gordon and Ms Marten met in 2016, prompting her to drop out of acting school and cut ties with her family.

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