Richard John Bingham was a British aristocrat, better known as “Lucky Lucan” after becoming a professional gambler in the Sixties, despite his losses often exceeding his winnings. In 1963, he married Veronica Duncan and fathered three children – but the marriage only lasted nine years and a bitter custody battle ensued, which he lost. On the evening of November 7, 1974, the children’s nanny, Ms Rivett, was bludgeoned to death in the basement of the Lucan family home and Lady Lucan was also attacked.

After the police opened up a murder investigation, Lucan – the prime suspect by this point – drove a borrowed Ford Corsair to his friend Susan Maxwell-Scott’s house before later abandoning it in Newhaven and disappearing altogether.

Many assumed Lucan had committed suicide and, in 1999, he was declared dead by the Hugh Court, but Ms Maxwell-Scott revealed during Amazon Prime’s “Lord Lucan: My Husband, The Truth” why she believed her friend was still alive.

She said in the 2017 documentary: “He was obviously suffering from a certain amount of shock, but he was perfectly in control of himself.

“I believe what he told me entirely, I’m quite certain that he told me the complete truth.

I think he’s alive

Susan Maxwell-Scott

“I would think that the probability is that he is still alive, but I have no knowledge of it.

“It’s just a feeling, I think he’s alive.”

Lucan was never seen in public again and his body was never found, leading to decades of speculation about his whereabouts.

Yesterday, the son of Ms Rivett, Neil Berriman, claimed he had found Lucan living as a Buddhist in a shared house in Australia.

The man he believes 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.

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Mr Berriman, 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 said the officer he spoke to agreed that police must look into his claims. 

He added: “They will now have to investigate this properly.”

Mr Berriman spent £30,000 on private investigations into Lord Lucan’s supposed whereabouts.

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But this afternoon, Lucan’s only son, George Bingham, told MailOnline he was “very sceptical” about the claims.

He said: “Quite frankly I am very sceptical about this. 

“I had seen the story and it does seem odd. 

“It would not be the first time someone has made a mistake, my father has been found many times over the years only to be wrong.    

“To be honest this is all ancient history, it happened in 1974 and now it’s 2020, I guess people will always go on looking and they are welcome to do so.”

During the same Amazon Prime documentary, Lady Lucan, who was found dead in September 2017, said she believed her former husband jumped off a ferry.

She said: “I would say he got on the ferry and jumped off in the middle of the Channel in the way of the propellers so that his remains wouldn’t be found.”

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