Who is Sandra Rivett’s son Neil Berriman and why does he feature in ITV’s Lucan docuseries?

NEIL Berriman is the concealed lad of Sandra Rivett, a West London nanny who was murdered by Lord Lucan. 

A caller BBC documentary, presented by Neil, volition dive into the details of the tragic execution and hopes to uncover wherever Lord Lucan mightiness person fled to.

A shocking discovery 

Neil was fixed up for adoption soon aft helium was born, truthful helium spent overmuch of his beingness unaware of who his biologic parent was. 

He grew up to go a builder successful Hampshire and was 40 years aged erstwhile helium yet learned the information astir his mum. 

At first, helium didn’t judge the quality that his parent was Sandra Rivett, a nanny who was murdered by Lord Lucan. 

He said helium was successful “complete shock” erstwhile helium discovered who his parent truly was and vowed to spot the antheral liable “caught”.

On his website, lordlucanthetrutch.com, Neil explains that helium is unhappy astir however his parent is referred to arsenic “just the nanny” erstwhile she was the unfortunate of a “violent crime”. 

He believes that this is due to the fact that her “killer was a Lord” who was helped successful evading the instrumentality by his “rich and almighty friends”. 

On the website, helium has collated a wide scope of reports and pieces of grounds related to his mother’s lawsuit and explains that helium is motivated by 1 elemental motto.

His motto is: "Sandra was my mum, however acold would you spell if it had of been yours?"

Murder successful Belgravia 

Sandra Rivett was conscionable 29 years aged erstwhile she was murdered successful the basement of a townhouse connected Lower Belgrave Street, West London. 

She had been moving arsenic a nanny for Veronica Duncan, the ex-wife of Lord Lucan, up until her death. 

Neil was her 2nd child, but her first, Stephen, was being raised by her parents since she was embroiled successful a bitter divided with her ex-partner. 

When she gave commencement to Neil, she gave him up for adoption. 

She went to enactment connected November 7, 1974, wherever she was sent to fetch beverage from the basement by Veronica. 

When Sandra didn’t return, Veronica went down to investigate. 

Lucan attacked his ex-wife successful the basement but she was capable to transportation him to halt earlier helium killed her. 

Veronica fled to a adjacent pub, wherever she called for her and cried “he killed the nanny”, each the portion dripping with blood. 

A constabulary hunt of the location led to the find of Sandra’s assemblage successful a sack, but Lucan had already vanished. 

Unbeknownst to Veronica and the police, Lucan had fled to his friends’, the Maxwell-Scotts, location successful Sussex.

He stayed astatine the Sussex mansion overnight, earlier departing successful the morning. 

Susan Maxwell-Scott, a adjacent person and state of Lord Lucan, was the past idiosyncratic to spot him alive. 

She insisted that helium was guiltless of the transgression and claimed that Lucan had breached into the location to combat disconnected different antheral who was readying to termination Veronica. 

Lucan was ne'er seen again, but determination person been galore reports of him hiding successful countries crossed Africa. 

Other radical person claimed that helium took his ain life, but nary 1 is certain. 

A hunt for caller evidence

Neil volition beforehand a caller BBC amusement named Lucan, which hopes to observe the slayer aristocrat’s whereabouts. 

The amusement volition footwear disconnected connected November 6, 2024, 50 years aft the execution took place, and volition aerial successful 3 parts. 

Neil has antecedently opened up astir wherefore the amusement meant truthful overmuch to him.

He said: “It is important to archer the communicative now, not conscionable due to the fact that it's the 50th anniversary, but due to the fact that I americium successful a presumption to bash so, 1 which I ne'er thought I would find myself in.

“With a documentary and caller evidence, immoderate of which I americium inactive moving on, I consciousness present is the close clip and astir the past accidental earlier the aged antheral passes distant and the anticipation of justness slipping away.

“I tin ne'er hide Sandra aft each these years and Glen and myself cannot spell connected everlastingly - each the pieces person fallen into place…the clip has come.”