The Lord Lucan mystery may be taking a step nearer to be solved, especially if the son of the nanny he murdered in 1974 has anything to do with it.
Sandra Rivett’s son Neil Berriman, 55, is planning to bypass the Met Police and head straight to the Australian High Commission in London to hand over a dossier with all the new information on the death of his mother. It will include image analysis by Professor Hassan Ugail – and as it contains allegations of a serious crime, it will have to be passed to relevant authorities down under.
Berriman, from Milland, west Sussex, is hoping to bring the mystery man – living in Australia – who he believes to be the runaway peer, to justice. And he reckons his evidence is pretty rock solid, reports the Mirror.
He said: “There is no point dealing with Scotland Yard any more. I am going straight to the Australians and they can deal with it directly and put appropriate pressure on the relevant police forces.
“These are scientific facts now. They are not anyone’s opinion.”
Prof Ugail and a US firm compared pictures of Lucan with a mystery English OAP living in the Brisbane area – and both confirmed they were “a match”. Ugail, who is Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bradford, previously identified two Russians behind the 2018 Skripal poisonings in Salisbury.
He said: “I stand by the science behind my algorithm. It’s never been wrong before.”
Lucan fled his home in London’s Belgravia after killing Sandra in November 1974. Pals claimed he committed suicide by throwing himself from a cross-channel ferry – but no body was found.
The Australian High Commission in London was approached for comment.
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