10/12/2012 Inside Out South East

Hello. On tonight's show, we'll be revealing fresh evidence that sheds

new light on the notorious case of Richard John Bingham, otherwise

known as Lord Lucan. Speaking for son of the nanny murdered in

Belgravia. Everything has always been Lord Lucan this, Lord Lucan

that. Well, wait a minute hang on there was this very attractive

young lady brutally murdered that has been forgotten about. The first

detective on the crime scene. was an awful lot of blood about,

there really was. The poor woman had obviously been folded up and

placed in this large sack, canvas bag. And the only brother of the

missing Lord. Was he the sort of man to commit suicide or did he

Regular viewers will know that Glenn Campbell has been

investigating the Lord Lucan case over a period of time. Tonight, he

asks if it is time to reopen this It was 1974. There were London's

gambling, aristocratic elite. A rich, powerful and secretive.

Richard John Bingham was one of their number. Lucky Lord Lucan was

his nickname. That luck ran out. A murder. The brutal death of a young

woman. A man Holland. And finally, the vanishing Peer of the realm.

Was it suicide, but it is gambling friends help him escape to a secret

Newlife? -- did his gambling new friends happen to escape to a

secret new life. I'm going to show you the new evidence we have found

on the Lucan case. Three key documents. Two police intelligence

reports that show how they believe Lord Lucan was alive and well and

living abroad in 1979, and as recently as 2002. And this police

witness statement. It tells of a mystery man living in at the Lucan

family home in the weeks before the murder. New evidence I put to Lord

Lucan's only brother, who, in his first interview, reveals what he

thinks happened. I do believe my brother was innocent. I do not

believe he would have committed suicide. He was a man of

considerable resourcefulness and therefore I would imagine that he

used resources to remove himself from the picture. No more, no less,

Many detectives take their work comes Ed mack. -- home. Strictly

speaking, they should not. But they do. This man did. His name was DCI

David 'Buster' Gerring. And these were his boxers. You see, back in

1974, DCI Gerring was the man Scotland Yard put in charge of the

day-to-day running of the hunt for Lord Lucan. DCI Gerring lived in

Tunbridge Wells. He died eight years ago. His three boxes of case

files and diaries have survived intact, on scene until this moment.

This is the woman we have to thank. If I remember rightly, a cid mack

in this corner. Her name is Davina chambers. Her father was DCI David

'Buster' Gerring. When was the last time you see in this material?

of them I have never seen. He just wanted them kept some were safe,

but not in his own possession. That is the impression we got. Our you

happy with the BBC taking away these notebooks and diaries to see

if we can find new clues? Gas, I am happy for you to do that. He would

like that Leckey would have liked somebody to carry on the

investigation. The case was never closed. These no books, diaries and

files dating back to 1974, and are scattered with clues, personal

observations and new names that transport you back to the very son

of the crime. - Maxine of the crime. 39 year-old John Bingham, Lord

Lucan, was accused of murdering his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett,

and attempting to kill his estranged wife on the night of 7th

November, 1974. The police believe Lord Lucan bludgeoned the family

nanny to death after mistaking her for his wife. He then savagely

attacked his estranged wife, Veronica, but she managed to escape,

taking refuge in this nearby pub. Finding himself the Prime suspect,

Lord Lucan fled the scene, driving 50 miles south to the small Sussex

town of och field, where he sought Four days later, the Ford Corsair

Lucan had fled London in, was discovered abandoned in Newhaven.

An incriminating length of lead piping was still in the boot. The

discovery sparked a huge manhunt. Officers scoured the countryside

and coastline for weeks. Despite an exhaustive search, nobody was ever

found. -- no body. Lucan's tightly- knit group of gambling friends

promoted the theory that he had committed suicide. Others, led by

DCI Gerring, suspected otherwise. am firmly of the opinion that he is

alive. I always have been. I have never changed that right from the

start. He thought he was spirited away somewhere. And then once he is

out of the country, with his contacts, the world is his oyster.

But spirited away where? Instructions were to make

arrangements for John Bingham, also known as Lord Lucan, to see his

children. To do that, I had to book his two eldest children on flights

to Africa. A pack and February, I interviewed this woman, who

sensationally claimed that in the 1980s, she had arranged for Lord

Lucan's two eldest children to fly to Africa so the missing father

could see them from afar. At some point, their father would observe

them and see them. That is what he wanted to do. See how they were

growing up. Her story was that she had been working for Lord Lucan's

close friend, John Aspinall, a man who had made no secret of his

willingness to help Lord Lucan, whether innocent or guilty. What I

probably would have done it, if he had appeared here, is anything that

he wished. You say if he had begged asylum from you, he would have got

it? He would have got it. It was John Aspinall who instructed her to

book the African flight. The revelations made headlines around

the world. Lord Lucan's children dispute that version of events. She

had asked us not to identify her. The following month she told the

same story to the Daily Telegraph. As a direct result of that

interview, I was put in touch with this man, someone else who had

papers from the past. His name is Neil Barrowman, a builder from

Sussex, who in 2004 was handed this brown envelope by his adoptive mum,

Jean, just before she died of cancer. Inside, he was told he

would find his birth certificate, listing his natural mother's name.

As promised, the envelope revealed its secret. His birth mother was

Sandra Rivett. And then the penny dropped. That my mother was Sandra

Rivett. And she had been murdered by Lord Lucan. What is it you're

looking for? Justice for my mother. The fact that everything is that

Mike has always been Lord Lucan is and Lord Lucan that. Wait a minute,

there was this very, very attractive young lady, brutally

murdered, that has been forgotten about. That was my mother. I cannot

traitor. Somebody has taken her life. How far are you willing to go

to see justice done? Whatever it takes, really. When it comes to the

book an investigation, as far as Scotland Yard are concerned,

everything has to be kept a closely guarded secret. Making this 1979

intelligence report, and this 2002 intelligence file, well, highly

valuable, I suppose. First, the 1979 report that I found at the

bottom of one of DCI Gerring's all the boxes. It shows that far from

being in Africa, the police that good intelligence that Lord Lucan

was closer to home, making secret visit to a privately owned Scottish

estate. The file contains a map of the estate in Scotland, together

with photographs of the businessman suspected of harbouring Lord Lucan.

But just how good was the police intelligence that Lucan was

visiting Scotland in the late 1970s? Well, good enough for them

to try to send this form of Flying Squad officer there for you to work

Now retired from Scotland Yard, Tony Russell spends his spare time

training and gun dogs. He has never spoken about his secret Lord Lucan

assignment before, but when I showed him the intelligence report,

the memories came flooding back. Is the terminology correct? Is that an

intelligence file from the 1970s? Absolutely. They have put a lot of

research into wit. -- into it. was the detail? They asked me to go

to Scotland to pose as a writer, hire a cottage, to take a female

officer with me posing as my wife and give me a year to try and find

Lord Lucan, who they thought it was on that estate in Scotland. The

only criteria in relation to that was it we managed to find him, they

would be informed and they it would come to lay hands on him up rather

than me arresting him. So you believe they had good, credible

intelligence? Absolutely. doesn't know if his bosses found

another volunteer to go undercover because he heard nothing more about

the assignment. But what I do know is 23 years later, the Metropolitan

Police still believe Lord Lucan is alive and living under a pseudonym

thousands of miles away in Africa. To prove it, this is the 2002 case

review file, and it makes fascinating reading. Up date upon

current activity. Alleged sightings of Lucan in southern Africa.

Photographs have been at York to do -- have been yielded. Remember what

Shirley said? In structures were to make arrangements for John Bingham

to see his children. Well, back that up with this 2002 police

intelligence report and the likelihood that Lord Lucan did

escape abroad news from a possibility to a probability. As

for Sandra Rivett, his alleged victim, her resting place is here,

in a corner of Croydon cemetery. think everyone has covered it up

for whatever reason. I don't know. Probably because there were some

wealthy and powerful people at that time and they did not want to upset

them. If the police have got it right, then in 1979, Lord Lucan was

making secret visits to a Scottish estate and in 2002, he was living

in Mozambique under the pseudonym of John Crawford. If that is not

enough, let us show you our third and potentially most explosive

piece of evidence. Taken less than three weeks after the Murdoch on

26th November 1974, this is the witness statement of Lord Lucan's

older sister, who after the murder, temporarily looked after at the

Lucan children. The first 12 pages detail the disintegration of the

Lucan's marriage. But on page 13, a conversation is recounted between

Lady Sarah and her knees. It tells of a mystery man living in the

Lucan home in the weeks leading up to the murder of Santo Rivett.

were talking about home. Camilla said the boy friend always stays

upstairs while we have lunch. I said, what is his name? She said, I

do not know, he has not told me. She said he lived in the house with

them. I said there is nowhere for him to sleep. She said sometimes he

sleeps in a nanny's grin and nanny sleeps with us. She said, sometimes

he sleeps with mummy. It is not clear whether at the boyfriend was

that of Lady Lucan or the nanny. I'm assuming that she meant than

nanny. Lord Lucan's story, a Briton in a letter to his brother-in-law,

was that he disturbed an intruder attacking a woman in the basement.

When he tried to interrupt the fight, the man fled. It was never

really taken seriously. In fact six months later, Lord Lucan was found

guilty in his absence of the murder of Sandra Rivett by a coroner's

Court jury. Lord Lucan's younger brother is still alive and lives in

Johannesburg. It took two meetings with him before he agreed to talk

on-camera. Naturally, I showed him what a work research had yielded up.

Even after reading them, he was guarded, insisting at first that I

stick to just 53 agreed questions. Lord Lucan's brother has never been

interviewed on television Until now. Is it the first time that you heard

of this second man the re in the house, or have there been whispers

of it before? It is certainly the first time I have heard of a second

man established in the house. did you feel when you read that?

think I felt annoyed that this information had not come out at the

time and it is clearly relevant to the situation and should, in my

opinion, have been presented, certainly at their inquest.

your system mentioned to you there was this other man in the house?

Surely that would have been an excellent defence for your brother?

In retrospect, yes. But I don't recall a conversation with her

about that. Do you believe your brother Lord Lucan was innocent.

do believe my brother was innocent. I think he realised immediately

that the dice were very heavily loaded against him. That there was

a considerable body of almost evidence that pointed towards him

and not in any decisive way towards anyone else. He decided the only

alternative was to remove himself on the picture. He chose to do that.

How did he remove himself from the picture? Was he the sort of man to

commit suicide? Or did he leave the UK? Those are not necessarily

exhaustive possibilities. I don't believe he would have committed

suicide. He was a man of considerable resourcefulness and

therefore I would imagine... But again, I have absolutely no

knowledge of anything along these lines that he used resources to

remove himself from the picture. No more, no less. I think. What do you

make of the 2002 Scotland Yard intelligence report that we showed

you that mentions John Crawford living incognito? I have never come

across that name. I think it is highly unlikely that my brother

would be living in Mozambique. Joan Crawford is as good a name as any

if you want to live incognito, but beyond that, absolutely nothing.

you think he made the right decision to flee abroad? Some

people have said that is the actions of a guilty man. There is

that unfortunate factor, but it was his decision at the time and I am

sure he made it in the for light of his knowledge of how the wheels of

justice would grind away and that that would make his life unbearable

if he stayed. Do you still think you but there is a live, what or is

he now dead? He is likely to not be alive, but not through any suicide

of his own, anything by his own hands, but just natural facts of

nature. Why have you decided to talk to the BBC? A I am encouraged

by the idea that there is a fresh source of evidence and that, I feel,

wants to be given a fair hearing. This seems to me to be one way of

achieving that. The detective sergeant who took the mystery man

witness statement back in 1974 is still alive and enjoying his

retirement. His name is Graeme Forsyth. This is the first time he

has spoken about the horrific scene he walk into. There was an awful

lot of blood around. The poor woman had been folded up and placed in

this large canvas sack. In the days and weeks after the murder, DS for

site became Lady Lucan's bodyguard and the lead detective on the

ground. Is that the right format? It certainly is. I probably took

this statement. Up he was the mystery man? -- who was the mystery

man? As far as I can recall, Sandra Rivett had a boyfriend. I think,

and I can't be certain, he was a seaman. He may have been a

Norwegian. On the occasion, he may have stayed overnight. The young

girl told me he occasionally stayed, but that is as far as I can take

that. Isn't that incredibly important? It potentially puts

another man in the House in the days and weeks before the murder.

Was the mystery man traced? wasn't. There was no doubt in our

mind as to who the murderer was. she was telling the truth, Camilla,

when she told the story to her aunt and then her aunt's relate the

story to you? I see no reason for it not to be true. She was a little

girl. Was used to pride that Lady Lucan would have allowed a

Norwegian sailor into her family home? It's not for me to say.

he was never traced? As far as I am aware. We wrote to Lady Lucan

asking for her views on the witness statement, but we have not received

a reply. It is a crime that has perplexed beat nation for nearly

four decades. A grisly murder in Belgravia and a vanishing peer of

the realm. But still fresh evidence continues to surface. Like three

boxes hidden away in a Sussex laughed. If you have not come

calling, they would still be stuck in the loft. Two secret police

intelligence reports that say Lucan escape to brought a renewed life.

It is a pity Scotland Yard didn't put enough resources into finding

him. And by far the most intriguing, this witness statement about the

mystery man, who was living in the Lucan family home in the days and

weeks before the murder, the murder of Neil Berryman's mother. I am

still baffled by this second person. I can't deal with that in my head.

If there is another murderer, I need to get to the bottom of it. I

need to know who and why the police have done nothing about it and what

they are going to do about it now. But basically, it is justice for my

mother. I want to know the truth. Lord Lucan's brother believes this

witness a man could be grounds for a review of the 1975's coroners

guilty verdict. I just hope that now, in the way that the evidence

seems to be gathering, that maybe the inquest result could be set

aside and if that happened, then a warrant of arrest would fall away

and my brother's situation would be restored to the normal situation of

a man innocent until proven guilty. And if that happens, it begs the

question, if Lord Lucan did not murder of Sandra Rivett, then he

did? -- then who did? That was Glen Campbell with that

special report. If you want any more information on tonight's show,

you can go to our Kent or Sussex websites. You can also watch the

programme again on iPlayer. Coming on next week - what happens to

young people when they need care and have no parents to turn to?

the moment I am are here on the streets, fighting for survival.