Countess Lucan: I would have helped my husband get away with murder - Telegraph How about that? Countess Lucan: I would have helped my husband get away with murder The wife of missing aristocrat Lord Lucan, who disappeared after murdering his childrens' nanny, has told how she would have covered up his crime has he not turned on her and left her too badly injured to help. Lord Lucan at a West End club in London back in 1973 Photo: REX Follow The Countess of Lucan also admitted she still harbours feelings for her husband, despite the fact he beat her savagely with a lead pipe, leaving her with an inch-long scar on her forehead. She said: “I remember the happy times. I have three children by him. He is still a part of my life and a part of me, even though it was all so long ago. "If I could have helped him I would have done." Lucan disappeared in 1974 after bludgeoning Sandra Rivett, the nanny, to death at his home in Belgravia, London. His wife claims he had mistaken Rivett for her in the darkened basement.

The couple had recently been involved in a bitter custody battle and when she entered the room he attacked her but she managed to fight him off and escape. Related Articles 'I helped Lord Lucan flee justice' 18 Feb 2012 The Countess said: "I would have helped him if it was possible. I wouldn't have given him money, I would have said 'go away I will handle it from here. "But I was too badly injured to try to help him. I had to have my injuries seen to. "If he had not attacked me I would have said get out. I have not seen you. I would have protected him." Days after the murder Lord Lucan's blood-soaked car was found abandoned in Newhaven, East Sussex. There have been numerous supposed sightings over the years but what happened to him has remained a mystery. He was officially declared dead by the High Court in 1999. Lady Lucan, 74, also dismissed claims made in a BBC Inside Out programme to be aired tonight (Monday) that her husband set up a new life in Africa as "nonsense". "He was not the sort of Englishman to cope abroad," she said.

"People are making a fast buck out of the name Lucan," she said. "It does not make sense. He died soon after the murder. "It's rubbish, I can guarantee they didn't go to Africa. It's ridiculous, it's false. "The children were wards of court, at boarding school. I was their carer, I would have known if they had gone to Africa. "I had to get permission from the court to take them abroad or even in to the country. I never took them abroad. "He likes England, he couldn't speak foreign languages and preferred English food. “These are people making a fast buck. It's so obvious he's dead.” A "witness", who worked for Lucan’s close friend, John Aspinall, claims in the documentary that she arranged for his children to fly to Africa where the peer could view them "from a distance". But the Countess, who still lives in Belgravia, London, just a few hundred yards from the house where the murder took place, said: "It was nearly 40 years ago, he'd be 76 now.

I read about this programme and thought 'Oh dear, not again.' They have been trying for sometime to get this off the ground." She believes Lucan committed suicide by throwing himself off a ferry at Newhaven, East Sussex, and said she did not have him pronounced dead for years as they did not have the money to pay death duties and school fees. "He was not pronounced dead so we could pay for the children's education," she said. "That was the reason it took so long. "If his body was found my son would have been the Earl of Lucan and we would have to pay death duties. "We would not have been able to pay for the children's education. They were only four, seven and 10 so there was a lot of time ahead." She says Lucan deliberately threw himself into the ferry propellers that would mangle the body and make sure no trace could be found to prove he was dead. "It was tremendously brave of him to have done that," she said. "I think he was thinking of the children and their future.

"He knew a lot about boats, he would have jumped off close to the propellers that would cut up his body so he could never be found." Lucan was found guilty in his absence of Miss Rivett's murder by a coroner's jury in 1975. My dad Lord Lucan: Son George Bingham breaks silence on mystery as police launch probe into new clues - Mirror Online Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email For the best part of four decades police have run up countless blind alleys in the hunt for Lord Lucan since he vanished after the family nanny was brutally murdered. But after the Mirror exclusively revealed his brother’s claim that he may have fled to Africa, detectives yesterday sensationally announced they are examining our “new material” in a bid to trace the aristocrat. The move came as Lord Lucan’s son George Bingham spoke for the first time about his father’s disappearance. George has kept his own counsel on events since the bloody 1974 killing of his nanny Sandra Rivett at the Lucan family’s London home in an attack that also left his mother Veronica injured.

In an email to the Mirror, the 44-year-old wrote: “I have not, to the best of my knowledge, seen my father since November 1974.” The twist comes after Lord Lucan’s younger brother Hugh revealed to us he “was sure” the fugitive fled to Africa after the killing. Missing: Lord Lucan has been rumoured to be in Africa The victim: Sandra Rivett, the nanny murdered by Lord Lucan Family: Lady Lucan with George and sister Frances in 1974 (Photo: Mirrorpix) Wife: Veronica, Lady Lucan (Photo: Daily Mirror) “I am unwilling to open up the story to endless ­scrutiny.” George was responding to claims made by Jill Findlay, a former secretary to Lucan’s close friend John ­Aspinall. Jill, not her real name, claimed she booked George and sister Frances on flights to Africa in the late 70s and early 80s. She recalled the children went to the Treetops Hotel in Kenya and believed they flew on to Gabon. Jill also claimed she was invited to meetings where Lucan was discussed by her boss and business tycoon Sir James Goldsmith.

She said: “Instructions were to make arrangements for Lord Lucan to see his children and to do that I had to book his two eldest children on flights to Africa. “It was between 1979 and 1981. It was in Gabon, from what I understand, that their father would observe them, which is what he wanted to do. "Just to see how they were growing up and look at them from a distance.” Jill said the children had no idea their missing dad was observing them. But George, who was seven when his fathered vanished, wrote: “The trip to Kenya was much later, I think nearer 1985. I was nearly 18. “Both my sisters were present, as were two other families, neither of which had any connection to John Aspinall. The airline tickets, safari expenses and hotels, as regards myself, were paid for by my family trust. “I think the safari probably did involve Treetops, but I’m not certain.” George said he recalled meeting Aspinall – owner of the Clermont Club, where Lord Lucan dined on the night of the murder – since his father disappeared.

He confirmed they did have “some brief correspondence” which “involved a financial gift on my 18th birthday, sizeable for my then age but wouldn’t pay six months’ rent nowadays”. George added: “I was very grateful and wrote to him. It was, to the best of my knowledge, the only contact I had with him after 1974.” Vanished: Lord Lucan, who disappeared in 1974 (Photo: PA) Happy couple: Lord Lucan's marriage to Veronica Duncan (Photo: Daily Mirror) Brother: Hugh Bingham in Johannesburg (Photo: Barcroft) The scene: Lord Lucan's former London home in Belgravia (Photo: Tim Anderson) Lord Lucan was found guilty in June 1975 at an inquest of murdering 29-year-old mum-of-one Sandra, the last person in England convicted by a ­coroner’s court jury. After the killing, his bloodstained car was discovered at the port of Newhaven in East Sussex. It is widely believed he drowned himself in the Channel – but a body has never been found.

George told a documentary his “best guess” was that his gambler father had hired someone to burgle the house as part of an insurance fraud. When the raider was disturbed, he suggested, the attack took place and Lucan discovered the bloody scene. But in another recent email he wrote: “I haven’t had much enthusiasm for considering this matter. In this country, you are innocent until proven guilty by proper trial, not by inquest juries.” How the tale unfolded November 7, 1974: Lucan family nanny Sandra Rivett is murdered at their home in London. November 8, 1974: Missing earl’s blood-stained car found abandoned at Newhaven, East Sussex. June 19, 1975: Inquest jury declared Lord Lucan was the murderer of Mrs Rivett. July 1999: Lord Chancellor refuses an application from Lucan’s son, George, to take up his father’s seat in the Lords because he could not prove the 7th earl had died. October 1999: Lord Lucan declared officially dead.

February 2012: Lucan’s brother Hugh tells the Mirror he is “sure” Lucky fled to Africa. Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent Most Read Most Recent The real life Reggie Perrin: MP John Stonehouse who faked his own death forty years ago | Politics | News | Daily Express POLITICS MP John Stonehouse was the real life Reggie Perrin Forty years ago the MP John Stonehouse was arrested on the other side of the world after faking his own death to begin a new life with his mistress. 00:01, Mon, Dec 22, 2014 REX John Stonehouse in 1975, a year after his ‘death' At first the heap of clothes by the water’s edge on a Miami beach appeared to indicate a personal tragedy, perhaps a suicide, a drowning or even a killing by sharks. Florida police quickly discovered that the abandoned garments belonged to the colourful, charismatic Labour ex-Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse, who had once been tipped as a future party leader. When the news of Stonehouse’s ostensible death was announced in November 1974, despite the absence of a body, there was a profound sense of shock around Westminster.

A minute’s silence was held in the chamber of the House of Commons and a string of flattering obituaries appeared in the press. But the MP’s disappearance was nothing like what it seemed. Under suspicion because of his dodgy, debt-riddled business dealings and his treacherous links to the Soviet bloc, Stonehouse had actually faked his own death, then fled to Australia where he planned to start a new life with his mistress and former Commons secretary Sheila Buckley. However the attempt to escape his debts, his past and his marriage did not last long. On Christmas Eve, just 34 days after he had apparently died, he and Buckley were arrested in Melbourne, the police having been tipped off by shrewd bank staff who noticed that Stonehouse was using two different names to deposit large amounts of cash. Initially the Melbourne police thought they were on the trail of Lord Lucan, the suave aristocrat who had vanished without a trace also in November that year after allegedly murdering the family nanny. Indeed Lucan and Stonehouse had some superficial similarities, including their polished manners and dark good looks. The Lucan connection was just another dramatic element in this extraordinary saga.

The 1970s were full of bizarre political scandals, such as the trial of Jeremy Thorpe for conspiracy to murder. But few were more sensational than the downfall of Stonehouse. It had all the ingredients of a gripping drama, from epic greed to dangerous adultery, from corruption in the developing world to espionage in Communist Eastern Europe. It is exactly 40 years ago this week since Stonehouse was arrested in Melbourne. His reemergence sparked a firestorm of media interest. The Daily Express put no fewer than 22 reporters on the story, including the paper’s cricket correspondent, while the News Of The World offered him £15,000 for his story. Public fascination was further stoked a few months later with the publication of the novel The Death Of Reggie Perrin by David Nobbs, later turned into a hugely popular comedy series starring Leonard Rossiter. The fictional Perrin, just like Stonehouse, was eager to start a new life under a different identity. He faked his own demise by leaving his clothes on a beach. It is a myth, however, that Stonehouse was the inspiration for this comic creation. In fact Nobbs had completed the manuscript five months before the MP’s disappearance.

In the comedy Reggie Perrin simply wanted to be free of his mundane existence as a middle manager in the dessert industry, whereas the motivation for Stonehouse was much darker. He was trying to evade the consequences of his corrupt, disloyal and criminal behaviour. At the root of Stonehouse’s ruin lay his obsession with power and wealth. Not one to be overburdened by modesty, he told friends his two ambitions in life were to become a millionaire and be prime minister. It is a myth, however, that Stonehouse was the inspiration for this comic creation At one stage both those goals seemed to be in his grasp. Born in 1925 into a Labour family from Southampton, he worked as an economist before being elected as the MP for Wednesbury, aged just 32. His ascent was rapid, reaching the Cabinet in 1968 as postmaster-general where he was responsible for the introduction of first and second class stamps. Throughout his rise up the political ladder he was strongly supported by his wife Barbara, whom he had married when he was just 23. But storm clouds were gathering over his career.

Through a “honey trap” operation during a visit to Czechoslovakia in the late 1950s, Stonehouse had been persuaded to work for Czech military intelligence on a retainer of £500-a-year, about a third of his parliamentary salary. This treacherous arrangement was uncovered by US intelligence in 1969 when Czech defector Jose Frolik said he was “90 per cent sure” Stonehouse was an agent for the Communist bloc. The British, however, dismissed such claims and no action was taken, though he was badly tainted by the charges. By the early 1970s Stonehouse was also in deep trouble. Having lost his ministerial position when Labour were defeated in the 1970 General Election, he stepped up his efforts to make his fortune through a string of business initiatives, among them a development bank in Bangladesh. But the global economic crisis of 1973, triggered by the rise in oil prices, plunged his finances into meltdown.

By 1974 the debts of his crumbling business empire of 24 companies totalled more than £800,000 [about £10million in today’s money] and he was under investigation by the Government for fraud. Adding to the maelstrom was the threat to his marriage from his affair with Sheila Buckley, who had become a director of many of his firms. Stonehouse could see only one way out. As part of his plan for a new life he developed two bogus identities using the names of dead constituents, Joe Markham and Clive Muldoon, a trick he learnt from Frederick Forsyth’s thriller The Day Of The Jackal. But it was this that alerted the bank tellers in Melbourne and ultimately brought about his arrest. Even then Stonehouse showed remarkable chutzpah, claiming to be the victim of a political conspiracy and demanding asylum in various parts of the globe. He fought a six-month battle to avoid extradition to Britain and, when he was finally brought back, he refused to resign his seat in Parliament, much to the fury of the Labour party. Stonehouse then compounded the aggravation by joining the obscure English National Party, becoming the organisation’s only MP for a brief spell.

Typically he conducted his own defence at his marathon Old Bailey trial in 1976, maintaining that his conduct had been the result “of a brainstorm or mental breakdown”. Clinging to the theme of psychological distress, he even said that the adoption of his two aliases were a sign of his split personality. None of this washed with the jury. Convicted on 18 counts of theft, fraud and deception he was sentenced to seven years in jail. Buckley, his mistress, was given a two-year suspended term. Having suffered a series of heart attacks in jail, he was released on health grounds in 1979. A year later Mrs Thatcher’s government received confirmation from another Czech defector that Stonehouse had been a spy but no prosecution was mounted because this evidence could not be used in court. Stonehouse spent his last years in a twilight existence. Having divorced Barbara, he married Buckley in 1981 and tried to forge a new career as a writer, but with little success. He died from another heart attack in 1988 at the age of 62. A life that had once promised so much had ended in ignominy. Related articles Lyn Paul website: Lyn Paul then...

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The verdict, returned in his absence on Thursday, 19th June, is the last of its kind to be delivered by an inquest jury - the procedure was outlawed by the 1977 Criminal Law Act. The first oil from the British sector of the North Sea is brought ashore at the BP refinery on the Isle of Grain. Mozambique gains independence from Portugal on 25th June. Cher and Gregg Allman get married on 27th June. On the same day BLMC becomes British Leyland Limited. The folk singer Tim Buckley dies from a drug overdose on 29th June. Jul Denis Hills, who had been sentenced to death for treason, is released from prison in Uganda. He returns to the UK on 10th July. American and Russian astronauts shake hands in space on 17th July after the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft make a successful docking. On 24th July the Secretary of State for Employment, Michael Foot, announces that unemployment in the UK had risen to over a million (1.036,000). The musical A Chorus Line premiers at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on 25th July.

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The independence celebrations are attended by the Prince of Wales and the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. The kidnapped American newspaper heiress, Patty Hearst, who had joined her captors, the Symbionese Liberation Army, is arrested on Thursday, 18th September, after a year on the FBI's "most wanted" list. The US President, Gerald Ford, escapes two assassination attempts. Oct Dutch industrialist, Tiede Herrema, is kidnapped by the Provisional IRA near his home in Limerick, Northern Ireland on 3rd October. A bomb explodes at a bus stop close to Green Park tube station on 9th October, killing a 23-year-old man, Graham Ronald Tuck, and injuring at least 20 others. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton re-marry on 10th October. On Wednesday, 15th October two members of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) are sentencted to 35 years in priosn for murdering three members of the Miami Showband.

Leonard Matlovich, a sergeant in the US Air Force and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, is discharged on Wednesday, 22nd October after appearing on the front cover of Time magazine publicly declaring his homosexuality. On the same day four people - Patrick Armstrong, Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson, later known as 'The Guildford Four' - are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Guildford pub bombings of 5th October 1974 and another pub bombing in Woolwich on 7th November 1974. In Spain General Franco hands over power to Prince Carlos on 29th October. Dutch Elm Disease spreads across the UK killing millions of elm trees. Nov The Royal Pavilion at Brighton is badly damaged by fire on Sunday, 2nd November. On Monday, 3rd November Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the first North Sea oil pipeline, which runs for 130 miles from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth. Tiede Herrema is released unharmed on 7th November. His kidnappers, Marion Coyle and Eddie Gallagher, surrender to the police.

On 11th November the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, is dismissed form office by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. Angola gains its independence from Portugal on the same day. In the UK the Sex Discrimination Act and the Employment Protection Act are both passed on 12th November. The former establishes an Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) to work towards the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of sex or marital status; the latter makes statutory maternity pay a requirement for employers, and legislates against dismissal on the grounds of pregnancy. The Acts come into force on 29th December. General Franco, the ruler of Spain for 39 years, dies on Thursday, 20th November, aged 82. Two days later King Juan Carlos reclaims the Spanish throne. Suriname gains its independence from the Netherlands on 25th November. Ross McWhirter, co-editor of the Guinness Book Of Records, is shot dead outside his Enfield home on Thursday, 27th November, three weeks after offering a £50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of terrorist suspects.

Robert Muldoon becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand following the Nationalist Party's victory in the general election held on 29th November. Dec On 2nd December South Moluccan terrorists hijack a train at Beilen in Holland. The driver and two passengers are killed. Two days later another group of South Moluccans invade and take control of the Indonesian Consulate in Amsterdam. Indonesian troops invade East Timor on 7th December. On 11th December an Icelandic gunboat patrolling the North Atlantic opens fire on an unarmed British fishery support vessel. In London on 12th December the Balcombe Street siege ends peacefully when four IRA gunmen, who had been holding hostage a middle aged couple, surrender to police. Following the Liberal-Country Party's landslide victory in the Australian general election held on 13th December, Malcolm Fraser takes over from Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister. Political rival Bob Hawke describes Fraser as "the cutlery man of Australian politics.

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, speaks with a forked tongue, and knifes his colleagues in the back." On 31st December the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approves the UK's application for loans totaling £975 million.

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Countess Lucan: I would have helped my husband get away with murder Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:15 UTC © REX Lord Lucan at a West End club in London back in 1973 The wife of missing aristocrat Lord Lucan, who disappeared after murdering his childrens' nanny, has told how she would have covered up his crime has he not turned on her and left her too badly injured to help. The Countess of Lucan also admitted she still harbours feelings for her husband, despite the fact he beat her savagely with a lead pipe, leaving her with an inch-long scar on her forehead. She said: "I remember the happy times. I have three children by him. He is still a part of my life and a part of me, even though it was all so long ago. "If I could have helped him I would have done." Lucan disappeared in 1974 after bludgeoning Sandra Rivett, the nanny, to death at his home in Belgravia, London. His wife claims he had mistaken Rivett for her in the darkened basement.

The couple had recently been involved in a bitter custody battle and when she entered the room he attacked her but she managed to fight him off and escape. The Countess said: "I would have helped him if it was possible. I wouldn't have given him money, I would have said 'go away I will handle it from here. "But I was too badly injured to try to help him. I had to have my injuries seen to. "If he had not attacked me I would have said get out. I have not seen you. I would have protected him." Days after the murder Lord Lucan's blood-soaked car was found abandoned in Newhaven, East Sussex. There have been numerous supposed sightings over the years but what happened to him has remained a mystery. He was officially declared dead by the High Court in 1999. Lady Lucan, 74, also dismissed claims made in a BBC Inside Out programme to be aired tonight (Monday) that her husband set up a new life in Africa as "nonsense". "He was not the sort of Englishman to cope abroad," she said. "People are making a fast buck out of the name Lucan," she said. "It does not make sense. He died soon after the murder.

"It's rubbish, I can guarantee they didn't go to Africa. It's ridiculous, it's false. "The children were wards of court, at boarding school. I was their carer, I would have known if they had gone to Africa. "I had to get permission from the court to take them abroad or even in to the country. I never took them abroad. "He likes England, he couldn't speak foreign languages and preferred English food. "These are people making a fast buck. It's so obvious he's dead." A "witness", who worked for Lucan's close friend, John Aspinall, claims in the documentary that she arranged for his children to fly to Africa where the peer could view them "from a distance". But the Countess, who still lives in Belgravia, London, just a few hundred yards from the house where the murder took place, said: "It was nearly 40 years ago, he'd be 76 now.

I read about this programme and thought 'Oh dear, not again.' They have been trying for sometime to get this off the ground." She believes Lucan committed suicide by throwing himself off a ferry at Newhaven, East Sussex, and said she did not have him pronounced dead for years as they did not have the money to pay death duties and school fees. "He was not pronounced dead so we could pay for the children's education," she said. "That was the reason it took so long. "If his body was found my son would have been the Earl of Lucan and we would have to pay death duties. "We would not have been able to pay for the children's education. They were only four, seven and 10 so there was a lot of time ahead." She says Lucan deliberately threw himself into the ferry propellers that would mangle the body and make sure no trace could be found to prove he was dead. "It was tremendously brave of him to have done that," she said. "I think he was thinking of the children and their future.

"He knew a lot about boats, he would have jumped off close to the propellers that would cut up his body so he could never be found." Lucan was found guilty in his absence of Miss Rivett's murder by a coroner's jury in 1975. On This Day. | Forces Reunited 2000: Hillary Clinton is first First Lady in Senate Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of the president, makes history when she wins a New York Senate seat. {{forumPost.upVotes}} •Reply With Quote•Edit• Link • Share • Report [Reported] • Delete Silver Surfer • 7 November 2009 21:24 [pending deletion] Read More 8th Nov 1987: Bomb kills 11 at Enniskillen Eleven people are killed after a bomb explodes during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh. 1974: Police hunt Lord Lucan after murder Detectives are searching for British aristocrat Lord Lucan following the death of his childrens nanny last night.

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Question: In 1975 lord Lucan was convicted in his absence of murdering his children's nanny. What was her name?
Answer: SANDRA RIVETT