I first became intrigued with the Lucan case a month after my fourteenth birthday. I use to remark to my Uncle George that he bore an uncanny resemblance to Lord Lucan, both very tall gents, mustached, and officer educated.
This is a very interesting interview Lady Lucan gave just a few years after the murder. Latterly in the 1980’s publicly she changed her mind, and stated that her husband probably killed himself by jumping overboard from the Newhaven to Dieppe ferry.
Today I raised a complaint with the BBC. Case number CAS-7938854-TOH1K1
The complaint has been made for two reasons:
1. A Million pounds is excessive amount of public money, to cover Neil Berriman’s journey searching for, Lord Lucan who he believes, was his Mother’s killer. Filming has been done in Australia.
2. There are Three Key Facts which almost without any doubt, confirm Lord Lucan (seventh Earl of Lucan) to be dead. The BBC appear to have added unnecessarily to Neil’s anguish, in doing so providing him with completely false hope.
The Metropolitan Police have sometime ago confirmed, the person who Neil believes to be Lord Lucan, IS NOT LORD LUCAN.
The documentary, OBVIOUSLY, is not going to show that Lucan has been found.
I know, I have been involved in this case since the murder took place.
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The Press release on this soon to be broadcast, three part BBC2 and iPlayer documentary was made yesterday by the BBC.
As Lord Lucan is DEAD and has been DEAD since the early hours of Friday 8th November 1974, not sure why the BBC have dared to commission this?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/lord-lucan-nannys-story-builder-33821693?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
Lord Lucan moved out of the family home in January 1973. This was when he and wife Veronica (Lady Lucan) felt their marriage had run its course.
Lucan rented a Basement Flat at 72A Elizabeth Street. This was two minutes walk away from the family home.
Watch my Vlog here on YouTube.
You can follow my Lord Lucan investigation at the following YouTube link.
https://youtube.com/@thelordlucancase?si=abxKzA-wxKX_aEOZ
Here are some photographs relevant to my Professional life.
Ben Needham a photo taken by Ben’s family on Kos Island.
One of my own photos of Lord Lucan’s former home. This was the front cover of my book ‘Lord Lucan Africa a new beginning.’
The 7th Earl of Lucan (born 18 December 1934 – disappeared 7th November 1974), commonly known as Lord Lucan, was a British peer suspected of murder who disappeared in 1974. He was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, the eldest son of George Bingham, 6th Earl of Lucan, by his wife Kaitlin Dawson. An evacuee during the Second World War, Lucan returned to attend Eton College, and then from 1953 to 1955 served with the Coldstream Guards in West Germany.
He developed a taste for gambling and, skilled at backgammon and bridge, became an early member of the Clermont Club. Although his losses often exceeded his winnings, he left his job at a London-based merchant bank and became a professional gambler. He was known as Lord Bingham from April 1949 until January 1964, during his father’s lifetime.
He was known for his expensive tastes; he raced power boats and drove an Aston Martin. In 1963 he married Veronica Duncan, by whom he had three children, Frances, Camilla and George. When the marriage collapsed late in 1972, he moved out of the family home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, in London’s Belgravia, to a Flat in nearby Elizabeth Street.
A bitter custody battle ensued, which Lucan lost. He began to spy on his wife and record their telephone conversations, apparently obsessed with regaining custody of the children. This fixation, combined with his gambling losses, had a dramatic effect on his life and personal finances.
On the evening of 7 November 1974, the children’s nanny, Sandra Rivett, was bludgeoned to death in the basement of the Lucan family home, 46 Lower Belgrave Street, London. Lady Lucan was also attacked; she later identified Lucan as her assailant. As the police began their murder investigation, Lucan telephoned his mother, asking her to collect the children, and then drove a borrowed Ford Corsair to a friend’s house in Uckfield, East Sussex.
Hours later, he left the property and vanished without trace. The car was found abandoned in Newhaven, its interior stained with blood and its boot containing a piece of bandaged lead pipe similar to one found at the crime scene. A warrant for Lucan’s arrest was issued a few days later, and in his absence the inquest into Rivett’s death named him as her murderer, the last occasion in Britain a coroner’s court did so.
Within Britain, there has been continuing interest in Lucan’s fate. Since Rivett’s murder, hundreds of reported sightings have been made in various countries around the world; none have been substantiated. Despite a police investigation and huge press interest, Lucan has not been found and is presumed dead; a death certificate was issued in 2016.