Misteri Setengah Abad Terungkai : Lord Lucan Lari Ke Filipina ~ Kami Tumpangkan Dia

begg · Post time 24-11-2024 09:52 PM

Lord Lucan stayed with another British peer and his wife in the Philippines ten years after he vanished, it is today claimed.

Lady Editha Moynihan, a successful businesswoman based in Manila, claims she and her husband entertained Richard John Bingham - the 7th Earl of Lucan - one decade after he disappeared. It is alleged Lord Lucan had murdered his children’s nanny in the basement of their home in Belgravia, central London.

Many believed the 39-year-old Old Etonian had jumped to his death from a ferry in the English Channel after bludgeoning Sandra Rivett to death with a piece of lead pipe and attempting to murder his estranged wife Veronica on the evening of November 7, 1974.

Although Lucan's blood-smeared Ford Corsair was found abandoned in the port of Newhaven on the Sussex coast a few days later, his body was never found and over the years, a number of knowledgeable ex-Met officers, including the top detective who carried out an exhaustive review of the Lucan case in 2004, have concluded that Lord Lucan was spirited out of the country by his well-connected and wealthy friends.

And this theory appears to today be supported by Lady Moynihan, who wed the infamous Antony Moynihan, 3rd Baron Moynihan – aka "Baron Scoundrel" – fugitive, suspected fraudster, brothel keeper and alleged murderer and sex and drugs trafficker. Baron Moynihan died in 1991, one year after declaring for divorce from Lady Moynihan.

The widow, now in her early 60s, said today: "Why would Tony lie to me…. And why would Michael tell me [it was Lucan] too? What is there to gain, lying to me?... He (Lucan) was very pleasant, very clean looking, and he was very well dressed. I was impressed with the way he was carrying his clothes, you know, because he was a tall man.

"Tony and Michael were quite close... I asked Tony [about Richard’s identity] 'because my stepfather said that he’s a murderer'. He said: 'Look, there is no proof to that, unless the man admits that he’s actually done it, there is no proof'... He (Lucan) didn’t look broke. He had the money to spend for a new passport."

Ms Rivett’s son Neil Berriman had told the Mirror this week: “We have been inundated with tens of thousands of visits to the website LordLucanthetruth.com. We’ve also been overwhelmed with emails - some of them are coming from ex-police officers. Much of the information we’ve received is fascinating.

“If you were a serving police officer it would have been impossible to speak about Lucan. But now, of course, once they’ve retired they are much freer to speak. The support I’ve received has been brilliant.”