Lord Lucan: The Nanny's story as builder who lost mum hunts peer 50 years on

Lord Lucan murdered his nanny successful London earlier disappearing, ne'er to beryllium seen again. The caller BBC blockbuster follows Neil Berriman connected his quest to find his mother's slayer 50 years on

A £1million documentary bid volition absorption connected the hunt for missing aristocrat Lord Lucan by the lad of the nanny helium murdered.

Three one-hour agelong programmes pursuing Neil Berriman’s quest volition beryllium screened by the BBC to people the 50th day of Lucan’s disappearance.

It volition absorption connected the hunt for missing Lucan led by Neil Berriman - the lad of the nanny helium murdered. Lucan killed nanny Sandra Rivett connected 8th November 1974 earlier disappearing - ne'er to beryllium seen again.

Berriman is convinced helium escaped England - with the assistance of affluent and almighty friends - and is inactive live and surviving successful Australia. Lucan would beryllium 89 now.

Clare Sillery, the BBC’s Head of Commissioning, Documentaries said: “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.”

She added: “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.”

Lucan was an Eton educated gambler who had friends successful precocious places. It’s believed helium planned connected sidesplitting his woman Veronica but mistakenly killed the household nanny who was moving connected helium accustomed time disconnected astatine the Lucan’s location successful Belgravia, cardinal London.

A BBC spokesperson said: “This three-part bid follows the profoundly idiosyncratic quest of Hampshire builder, Neil Berriman, whose condemnation successful his ain quality to lick the enigma is unshakeable.

“The lawsuit has consumed Neil for the past 2 decades. He watches each film, reads each book, meets constabulary officers who instrumentality him done pictures of the country of the crime, and helium corresponds with Veronica, Lucan’s wife, and scrutinises each item of Lucan’s life.

“With the enactment of a erstwhile BBC investigative journalist, Glen Campbell, Neil maps retired what seems Lucan’s apt flight from his homeland to a beingness of exile successful Africa.

“The 2 men unearth persuasive grounds that 1 of Lucan’s almighty friends helped mastermind a caller beingness for the aristocrat successful Mozambique nether the alias ‘John Crawford’.

“On a probe travel to South Africa Glen secures a uncommon interrogation with Lucan’s expatriate brother, Hugh, who points the 2 Lucan seekers onto a way that leads to Eastern religion, Buddhist retreats and yet the eastbound and westbound coasts of Australia.”

He added: “Neil emerges from this probe not lone convinced that Lucan got away, but besides that helium volition beryllium the antheral who yet secures justness for his commencement parent and finds the fugitive lord.

“If inactive alive, Lucan would beryllium astir to participate his ninth decade, truthful the timepiece is ticking - volition Neil beryllium successful clip to find justness for his mother?”Some of the world’s apical facial designation experts person analysed images of the enigma antheral successful Australia and said they are an nonstop lucifer to each the photos taken of Lucan earlier his disappearance. The Daily Mirror archetypal broke the communicative of Berriman’s hunt for the missing Lord backmost successful 2020.

The programmes volition beryllium aired connected BBC2 and BBC Iplayer successful aboriginal November