An aristocrat's lover accused of killing their baby is a convicted rapist, a court heard yesterday.
Mark Gordon, 50, also committed an 'armed kidnapping' when he was just 14.
He served 22 years in a US jail for a series of sexual and violent offences when he was a teenager, including a knife-point rape.
Gordon, who stands accused with Constance Marten, 37, of killing their daughter by gross negligence, had previously been convicted of armed kidnapping, four sexual assaults, armed burglary and aggravated battery.
Yesterday the Old Bailey heard Gordon broke into a woman's house in Florida with a knife and hedge clippers on April 29, 1989.
