Yahoo News Has Lord Lucan been found?
The son of a nanny murdered by Lord Lucan in the '70s, claims to have tracked down the missing aristocrat in Australia.
Neil Berriman, whose mother Sandra Rivett was killed in 1974, says that he's informed the police of his findings. He believes that the peer is now living as a Buddhist.
"I know he's still alive," he told the Daily Mirror.
According to the tabloid newspaper, the man believed to be Lucan is "in his mid-80s and seriously ill, awaiting major surgery and virtually housebound in a large shared detached house in the suburbs". Witnesses confirmed that an elderly Englishman who looks like Lucan lives at the house.
Richard John Bingham, more commonly known as Lord Lucan, vanished after Rivett was found bludgeoned to death in his family's Belgravia home and has never been seen since. She had been employed as a nanny to his children.
He also attacked his wife, Lady Veronica Lucan, in the incident, who later identified him as the assailant.
Since his disappearance, there has been much speculation as to what happened to the aristocrat, with dozens of unverified sightings reported. After nothing was heard from him for decades, he was declared legally dead in 1999. An official death certificate was released following a court ruling in 2016 allowing his son, Lord Bingham, to assume his title.
If he's found to be alive then then his son would have to give up the title and any inheritance.
Neil Berriman, now 52, has been to Scotland Yard’s Cold Case Unit with his findings, telling them: "I believe I have tracked down the man, Lord Lucan, who murdered my mother."
He confirmed that they had agreed to take action, adding: "They will now have to investigate this properly."
Lucan would have turned 85 last month.
Three years after his disappearance Lady Lucan wrote a letter, published by the Daily Mirror, appealing for him to give himself up. She later went on to claim that she was convinced he'd committed suicide.
Lady Lucan was found dead in the very same Belgravia family home her husband vanished from in 2017, aged 80.
An inquest ruled that Veronica was found to have killed herself with a cocktail of drink and drugs after wrongly self-diagnosing with Parkinson's disease, reported The Telegraph in 2018.
She had spent her final years as a recluse, having not spoken to her sister or her three children, George, Frances and Camilla, since the 1980s. She left her fortune to charity.
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