STEPHEN WRIGHT: The 'evil genius', bigamist, drug dealer and playboy peer who 'hid' Lord Lucan for years - and the BIZARRE disguise he used to avoid being caught...

His last resting spot tin beryllium recovered nether an overhanging histrion successful a cemetery 7,000 miles from his aged stomping crushed astatine the House of Lords, wherever helium erstwhile pledged allegiance to the Crown. Located successful 1 of the astir densely populated, noisiest and polluted cities successful the world, the Court of Everlasting Peace successful Manila’s Memorial Park is an oasis of calm – you tin adjacent perceive birds singing arsenic you crouch to work his gravestone.

It is 33 years since the 3rd Baron Moynihan of Leeds died from an aneurysm astatine 55 and, either due to the fact that of theft oregon conscionable the transition of time, respective of the letters connected his inscription person disappeared.

But determination tin beryllium nary mistaking this is wherever the ashes of the antheral besides known arsenic ‘Lord Supergrass’, ‘Baron Scoundrel’ and the ‘Ermine Pimpernel’ are interred.

It was conscionable a fewer miles from his unkempt sedate successful the Philippines superior that ‘the Right Honourable’ Antony Patrick Andrew Cairne Berkeley Moynihan ran a immense transgression empire portion successful self-imposed exile from his beloved England.

The ex-Coldstream Guard fled to Manila, via Spain, successful 1971 to flight charges successful London wherever helium was described successful court, successful his absence, arsenic the ‘evil genius’ down frauds. But those offences were thing to his activities successful the Far East.

Court documents unearthed by the Mail successful the US notation to him successful the precocious ’80s arsenic ‘a fishy of respective instrumentality enforcement agencies astir the satellite for crimes including archetypal grade murder, wealth laundering, fraud, heroin trafficking and the exportation of 25,000 prostitutes’.

Add to that the information helium ran a drawstring of massage parlours (brothels mightiness beryllium much appropriate) crossed Manila and Bangkok, was a five-times joined bigamist and serial playboy, and you get a clearer picture.

Now different of his unlawful sidelines tin beryllium revealed: the proviso of fake passports to his transgression associates.

They included, it is sensationally alleged, a chap fugitive adjacent from London: Lord Lucan, who vanished successful November 1974 aft allegedly murdering nanny Sandra Rivett astatine the family’s Belgravia home.

According to Baron Scoundrel’s 4th woman Editha, Lady Moynihan, Lucan visited them successful Manila successful astir 1984 to cod a question papers which was produced done the ‘Day Of The Jackal’ ploy of stealing the individuality of a dormant child.

She says the brace greeted different with hugs and her hubby referred to their ‘charming’ visitant arsenic a ‘very special’ aged person from London. Her account, which the Mail has spent months investigating, reads similar thing retired of a Netflix transgression drama.

Some volition beryllium sceptical – for 50 years the Lucan lawsuit has been mired successful mendacious sightings and far-fetched theories – but our inquiries person uncovered a bid of tantalising connections betwixt her precocious hubby and Lucan, and compelling circumstantial grounds to enactment her story.

The proposition that 2 fugitive peers – calved a twelvemonth isolated and who mixed successful the aforesaid ‘Chelsea Set’ circles successful the 1960s earlier going connected the tally – should enactment successful interaction should travel arsenic nary surprise.

They were signed up to the masonic-style bond, which linked that breed whose ‘stud book’ lines pb backmost to the aforesaid stables – privileged schools and the Household Brigade. The honour codification bound their soundlessness connected each other’s affairs, nevertheless despicable.

Lucan went to Eton, portion Moynihan was educated astatine Stowe, and some were members of the Lords. Lucan inherited his rubric successful 1964 and Moynihan the pursuing year.

Both did their National Service successful the Coldstream Guards. Moynihan served from January 1955 to July 1956 and Lucan from February 1953 to May 1955. Both were posted to Germany, some near arsenic 2nd lieutenants but some remained connected the reserve list.

Both were connected to amerciable gambling successful London. Criminal associates of Moynihan held paper schools successful backstage homes, successful peculiar baccarat and chemin de fer. Lucan attended akin parties and chemin de fer was his favoured game.

Moynihan asked questions successful the Lords for the gambling lobby, which included Lucan’s adjacent friend, zoo proprietor John Aspinall.

Moynihan was a transgression subordinate (through a communal friend) of Mark Sykes, a present dormant Old Etonian who organised specified gambling parties and claimed to beryllium a location subordinate progressive successful utilizing rigged cards astatine Aspinall’s Clermont Club, wherever Lucan played, to fleece affluent players.

Their characters were remarkably similar. Both were cads, playboys, mediocre with wealth and dense drinkers. They were portion of the Establishment but successful a consciousness anti it, contempt being obsessed with their children getting their titles. And some were fugitives who frustrated Scotland Yard’s finest.

Millions of words person been written astir Lucan but what astir Moynihan, the ‘Lord that Roared’ who turned supergrass to assistance the US’s Drugs Enforcement Administration (DEA) bring down the elusive British drugs baron Howard Marks successful the precocious 1980s?

Moynihan was calved successful 1936, the elder lad of Patrick Moynihan, a barrister and stockbroker who succeeded to the Barony of Moynihan aboriginal that year. Patrick’s begetter Sir Berkeley Moynihan, an eminent surgeon who introduced surgical rubber gloves to Britain from America, had been created a baronet during Lloyd George’s last medication and past a adjacent successful 1929.

Patrick died successful 1965, financially embarrassed and facing charges of homosexual importuning. If determination was a cardinal rule to Baron Scoundrel’s life, it was to beryllium recovered connected the partition of his bureau successful Manila, wherever a brass plaque bore the legend, ‘Of the 36 ways of avoiding disaster, moving distant is the best’. Moynihan learnt the value of this astatine an aboriginal stage.

He archetypal legged it successful 1956, to Australia, to flight his father’s fury implicit a liaison with a Soho nightclub waitress and to fly his archetypal wife, an histrion and sometime nude exemplary whom helium had joined secretly the erstwhile twelvemonth and who had present taken retired a summons for assault.

The thought was to enactment connected his uncle’s sheep workplace but aft 5 days helium ran distant to Sydney, wherever helium made his debut arsenic a banjo subordinate and met a ‘ravishing’ Malayan fire-eater’s adjunct with the signifier sanction Princess Amina who was to beryllium his 2nd wife.

Soon aft they wed, helium made his archetypal tribunal appearance, accused of stealing 2 bedsheets. He was recovered not blameworthy but arsenic helium walked from tribunal helium was fixed different summons, this 1 implicit a lease. It was clip to tally distant again.

Moynihan acceptable disconnected with his woman connected a belly-dancing circuit of Europe and the Far East. In Tokyo helium challenged an American journalist, who criticised his wife’s performance, to a duel. Photos amusement them attacking each different with their buttocks: Moynihan, the king of publicity, triumphed.

After helium succeeded his begetter successful the peerage successful 1965 Moynihan took the Liberal Whip successful the Lords, wherever helium was chiefly acrophobic successful arguing that Gibraltar beryllium fixed to Spain. The maverick’s stance did not endear him to the House.

Meanwhile, his analyzable concern activities and idiosyncratic finances had brought him to the attraction of police. By 1970 helium faced 57 charges, among them fraudulent trading, mendacious pretences, fraud against a gaming casino and the acquisition of a Rolls-Royce with a worthless cheque.

His extradition was sought from Spain, wherever helium was living, but helium disappeared, lone to resurface the adjacent twelvemonth successful the Philippines, a haven for British fugitives.

In 1968 helium joined for a 3rd clip – different belly-dancer, this 1 a Filipina – and the caller Lady Moynihan’s household had a concatenation of massage parlours successful Manila, wherever the adjacent remained for overmuch of the remainder of his life.

At the Old Bailey fraud proceeding successful 1971, the justice who branded him successful his lack ‘the evil genius’ remarked: ‘It’s a lawsuit of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. The prince down each these offences is Lord Moynihan.’

As the 1970s wore connected Moynihan recovered employment successful the planetary drugs trade, arsenic good arsenic successful fraud and prostitution. The archetypal hint of this came successful 1980 erstwhile helium was named by an Australian Royal Commission arsenic an subordinate of Sydney’s ‘Double Bay Mob’, engaged successful the importing of heroin from Manila.

No charges were brought and Moynihan continued his beingness arsenic a pimp nether the patronage of President Ferdinand Marcos, ‘my drinking chum’, arsenic helium called him.

Marcos reportedly shielded him from prosecution implicit the execution of a nightclub proprietor (who joined 1 of Moynihan’s ex-wives).

He ran a brothel wrong 100 yards of the British Ambassador’s residence and owned a edifice called MacArthur successful a seedy portion of Manila, which is wherever Lucan is said to person gone aft initially arriving successful the metropolis successful the mid-80s.

One of his champion friends and drinking partners was the Manila- based 6th Marquess of Headfort, Michael Taylour, who according to Editha besides met Lucan.

After the coup against Marcos successful 1986, Moynihan’s presumption became uncertain – though his 50th day enactment that twelvemonth was legendary, with the champion beef and vino flown successful from Hong Kong –and the adjacent twelvemonth helium was forbidden to permission the Philippines pending investigations into his links with drugs and prostitution.

In a bid of bombshell beforehand leafage articles, a section paper accused him of being a drugs king, murderer, concern standard enactment trafficker and brothel owner, allegations helium fiercely denied.

But the penning was connected the wall, with Moynihan susceptible to unit from Scotland Yard and the US DEA to assistance them drawback his friend, Oxford-educated drugs baron Howard Marks who controlled an estimated sixth of the planetary marketplace successful marijuana.

He approached Marks with a bogus connection to merchantability him an land successful the Philippines connected which to turn marijuana. In instrumentality for immunity, Moynihan wore a concealed portion recorder to ensnare his friend.

Marks was duly convicted successful Florida, with Moynihan arsenic main witnesser for the prosecution.

It was during the tribunal lawsuit successful 1989 that Moynihan’s lucrative concern successful procuring mendacious passports, with the assistance of a corrupt nine lawyer from London, Jimmy Newton – a chap Stowe aged lad – was laid bare.

He said that pursuing his apprehension successful Manila successful 1987 helium ‘made it clear’ to a DEA cause and a Scotland Yard detective that helium ‘was progressive successful mendacious passports’ for himself and his associates.

He was paid $21,700 arsenic good arsenic being granted immunity from prosecution successful instrumentality for testifying against his chap drugs conspirators, including Marks.

While giving grounds successful 1989, helium spoke astatine magnitude astir committing individuality fraud for transgression associates, but did not sanction Lucan. Maybe it was a substance of honour not to betray idiosyncratic from precocious society, nevertheless heinous the transgression of which helium was accused.

Explaining his title, Moynihan told the US court: ‘I beryllium my allegiance to the Crown and what I judge would beryllium the champion work to the Crown.’

He snapped aft a US lawyer said ‘being a subordinate of the aristocracy successful England has galore advantages including wealth, acquisition and household connections’. 

Moynihan replied: ‘Not necessarily, I americium atrocious to archer you. Certain advantages, getting bully tables astatine restaurants and bully seats successful theatres, but whereas immoderate of the members of the House of Lords are so the world’s richest radical – I could sanction the Duke of Westminster – immoderate are wholly poverty-stricken.’

Lawyer: ‘Are you included among the poverty-stricken Lords successful England?’ Moynihan: ‘I person lived a beingness similar a yo-yo. I person been up and down galore times.’ He surely had. 

Amid claims that determination was a £1million underworld declaration connected his head, the DEA gave him refuge and extortion successful the US for a clip and hailed him arsenic ‘a hero, 1 of the bully guys’. Marks saw things differently: ‘He’s a first-class bastard.’

According to Editha, Moynihan would often deterioration a Santa Claus-style beard arsenic a disguise.

In Manila, to which helium returned aft his supergrass grounds successful the US, Moynihan lived successful the

suburbs successful his heavily-fortified mansion, wherever helium is said to person entertained Lord Lucan and where, according to legend, helium hosted Wolf of Wall Street-style bare excavation parties and noshed his favourite pork pies from Fortnum & Mason successful London.

He had arsenic his basal successful Manila a brothel named the Yellow Brick Road, wherever helium liked to beryllium called ‘Uncle Tony’. ‘I conscionable beryllium backmost and cod the money,’ helium said, ‘the girls bash each the work.’

His abrupt decease successful 1991, aft eating astatine his favourite edifice Le Souffle, was not the extremity of the story. A fewer months earlier helium died, his 5th ‘wife’ Jinna had fixed commencement to a son, Daniel, who Moynihan wanted to beryllium his heir.

But successful 1996, London’s High Court ruled that the matrimony was null and void arsenic helium was not legally divorced from 4th woman Editha, truthful Daniel could not inherit the Baron’s title. It went to erstwhile Tory Sports Minister Colin Moynihan, his half-brother.

The Moynihan household were backmost successful the headlines successful 2016 erstwhile 1 of the rogue’s daughters from his 3rd matrimony was changeable dormant successful the Philippines amid a savage warfare connected drugs.

Aurora Moynihan was calved into a beingness of privilege. Educated astatine a backstage schoolhouse successful Malvern, Worcestershire, earlier attending a apical Swiss finishing schoolhouse and studying astatine the Sorbonne successful Paris, she was considered by her household to beryllium ‘brilliant’.But she fell into the aforesaid trap arsenic her playboy begetter aft dabbling successful drugs arsenic a young woman.

Miss Moynihan, 45, who was connected a constabulary drugs ticker list, was recovered by the broadside of a Manila roadworthy with aggregate gunshot wounds.

Next to her assemblage was a chilling connection scrawled connected a portion of cardboard: ‘Pusher to the celebrities. You’re next.’

She was recovered with 4 sachets of shabu, oregon methamphetamine, and ‘drug paraphernalia’, according to police, who person been accused of carrying retired extra-judicial shootings of cause dealers connected behalf of erstwhile Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte.

Her begetter had contacts astatine the apical of the constabulary unit and 1 cannot assistance wondering whether if helium had inactive been alive, she mightiness not person died.

Her ashes are astatine St Alphonsus parish religion successful cardinal Manila, a fewer miles crossed the metropolis from her father’s resting place.

The aged bounder erstwhile called himself a ‘cheat, liar, thief and scoundrel’. Yet the inscription connected his sedate paints a antithetic picture, describing him arsenic the ‘RIGHT ONORABLE, LORD MOYNIHAN OF EEDS’ (sic) – ‘a loving father, a large member and a magnanimous friend’.

Someone, it is claimed, who besides took the secrets of his narration with 1 specified ally, Lord Lucan, to his grave.