Father of runaway aristocrat makes emotional plea to daughter

The Independent's Morning Headlines email [View online]( January 19, 2023 [Morning Headlines]( 1 / ['Beyond painful': Father of runaway aristocrat makes emotional plea for daughter to turn herself in]( An aristocrat whose estranged daughter has vanished with her sex offender partner and their newborn baby has issued an emotional appeal telling her to turn herself in to the police. Napier Marten, a film and music producer, urged his[daughter Constance]( to take herself and the child to safety as soon as possible. Mark Gordon, the partner of Ms Marten, was jailed in the late 1980s in Florida, US, after raping and assaulting a woman when he was 14. After serving a 20-year sentence he was deported back to the UK in 2010,[police revealed on Wednesday.]( Appealing to his daughter, Mr Marten said: “I want you to understand that you are much much loved whatever the circumstances. We are deeply concerned for your and your baby’s welfare”.   [2 / 'I've got nothing left in the tank': Jacinda Arden announces shock resignation]( The Labour Party premier said in an emotional and tearful address that she planned to stand down next month, saying she was too tired to seek a third term 3 / [All police forces ordered to search for sex predators and domestic abusers in ranks]( Rishi Sunak to meet Metropolitan Police commissioner as David Carrick’s horrific crimes spark intensified efforts to root out predators [4 / Boris Johnson ‘wanted to scrap’ British tanks now being sent to Ukraine]( Exclusive: Army chiefs had to fight ‘tooth and nail’ to persuade the then-prime minister to keep the Challenger 2 squadron, sources claim 5 / [Children making multiple suicide attempts before getting NHS mental health care, charity warns]( Challenges in NHS crisis services are a ‘ticking timebomb for mental health services in the future’, says Look Ahead     The Big Question How the climate crisis is increasing deadly polar bear encounters The[climate crisis](isn’t only taking a devastating toll on humanity with a carousel of increasingly extreme events. It’s also greatly harming the planet’s biodiversity, reports Graig Graziosi//link.e.independent.co.uk/click/30292490.46642/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY28udWsvYXV0aG9yL2dyYWlnLWdyYXppb3Np/583d2887487ccd777a8b7489C502810fc. On Tuesday, reports emerged that [a polar bear had killed a woman and a child in a small village](in western Alaska. While it’s unclear if the attack was a direct result of the climate crisis, changing conditions have forced the bears into more — and sometimes fatal — encounters with humans. “Initial reports indicate that a polar bear had entered the community and had chased multiple residents,” Alaska state troopers wrote in a dispatch report about the attack. “The bear fatally attacked an adult female and juvenile male.” A local resident ultimately shot and killed the bear. Arctic dwellers, the bears live in a region that is heating at four times the rate of the rest of the world, [as reported by]( NASA scientist Peter Jacobs. 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