Lord Lucan breakthrough as how and where 'killer evaded justice for decades revealed'

Lord Lucan (left) and execution unfortunate Sandra Rivett (Image: Getty )

Lord Lucan could person evaded justness successful Africa and lived for years nether an alias, a caller documentary volition suggest.

A 3 portion BBC bid follows Neil Berriman, lad of murdered nanny Sandra Rivett, arsenic helium finds accusation to suggest Lord Lucan fled to Mozambique nether the alias John Crawford aft she was killed.

It is to people the 50th day of his disappearance adjacent month.

Hampshire builder Mr Berriman has been consumed by the unsolved lawsuit since helium discovered his mother’s individuality astatine the property of 40.

He had been enactment for adoption arsenic a baby. Ms Rivett was discovered dormant connected November 7, 1974 successful the basement of Lord Lucan's location astatine 46 Lower Belgrave Street, cardinal London.

The slayer besides attacked Lord Lucan's mother, Lady Lucan, severely beating her, earlier she escaped and raised the alarm astatine a adjacent pub.

It is suspected the slayer was really aft Lord Lucan's wife, owed to their matrimony difficulties, and it was a tragic lawsuit of mistaken identity.

Eton-educated John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, rapidly became the main fishy for some attacks aft helium disappeared the aforesaid night.

His car was recovered abandoned and soaked successful humor successful Newhaven, East Sussex. A twelvemonth aboriginal an inquest assemblage declared him to beryllium the killer.

No assemblage has been recovered successful the hunt for Lord Lucan who would beryllium present adjacent to 90 if alive.

It is believed Lady Lucan was the intended unfortunate (Image: Getty)

He was officially declared dormant by a High Court justice successful 1999 connected the flimsy grounds that "he had not been seen oregon heard from for astatine slightest 7 years, and that nary 1 had a crushed to judge helium was inactive alive."

But, the enigma has sparked reported sightings, including since then, each implicit the globe, including successful Australia, Ireland, Africa and New Zealand.

There were adjacent chaotic rumours that helium fled to India and lived arsenic a hippy called “Jungly Barry”.

During Mr Berriman's quest for answers helium has met constabulary officers and adjacent communicated with Lord Lucan’s woman Veronica, Lady Lucan, earlier she died successful 2017.

BBC investigative journalist, Glen Campbell joined forces with him for the bid and they look astatine his "likely flight way to Africa."

Mr Campbell contacted Mr Berrimen aft the erstwhile obtained a confidential Scotland Yard 2002 quality record that looked astatine "credible quality Lord Lucan, was live and surviving overseas successful the precocious 1990s."

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A BBC spokesperson said: "In the series, the 2 men unearth persuasive accusation that indicates Lord Lucan’s almighty friends helped to mastermind a caller beingness for the aristocrat successful Mozambique nether the alias John Crawford."

Clare Sillery, caput of commissioning, documentaries, said: “The disappearance of Lord Lucan, pursuing the execution of Sandra Rivett, is simply a enigma that has baffled the constabulary and fascinated the property for fractional a century.

“Whilst determination person been galore programmes pursuing Lord Lucan and his imaginable fate, Sandra’s communicative has seldom been told.

“By pursuing Neil’s profoundly idiosyncratic quest to question justness for his parent we summation a unsocial perspective, 1 which sees an mean antheral instrumentality connected the British constitution successful his hunt for the fugitive Lord.”

In 2016, Lord Lucan’s lad Lord George Bingham inherited his rubric arsenic the eighth Earl aft helium applied for a decease certificate 42 years aft his begetter vanished, nether the Presumption of Death Act, which came into effect successful 2014.

Mr Berriman says connected his website: "He's ne'er faced justness and my parent was allowed to conscionable slice into distant memory, the accidental unfortunate of a subordinate of the aristocracy's whim to lick his matrimony problems by 'doing away' with his troublesome wife.

"Well, needless to say, my ngo is to support my mother's representation precise overmuch live and to question justice.

"She is not 'just the nanny' she is simply a unfortunate of convulsive transgression who became secondary due to the fact that her slayer was a Lord, a Lord who was protected and who vanished overseas with the assistance of his affluent and almighty friends alternatively than look justice."

Lucan is acceptable to aerial connected BBC Two and iPlayer this autumn.