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The Truth About Lord Lucan - An Opinion.
Author: Greg Alexander
Date: 11th August 2003.
I happened to be reading a copy of “Lucan Lives” the other day by Robert Brimmell when I was suddenly struck by the fact that some of the detail of the story didn’t quite ring true. Apparently at the time of the murder of the nanny and the attempted murder of his wife, Lucan had been so hard up that he had been forced to sell the family silver bearing the Lucan family crest. However we also hear that he was in possession of estates in Ireland valued at £2-3 million in the currency of the day accompanied by £100k in unpaid rents. But how could he afford to be so lax (or generous even) in not collecting the rents if he was so hard up?
Another detail I found peculiar in the Lucan story is that the family kept a pet Doberman which is hardly ideal in a busy cosmopolitan capital. Although I live outside the capital myself, whenever I have visited I do not recall seeing people taking there dogs for a walk along the streets or even in the parks. Surely a Doberman would have been an unpractical handful?
Then there is the peculiar object which appeared at the crime scene we are told about in the form of a US mail bag. Apparently it had been used to cover the body at some point in time. We are told that Lucan had obtained it from the local gentleman’s club to which he had belonged which was basically an up-market gambling den. But how did such a bag manage to end up at a gambling club in the first place having presumably originated from a US air force base? Such bases as far as I am aware are usually located well outside of the capital. And how had Lucan then come by it himself? What exactly had he taken from the club such that it needed to be carried in a mail bag, his winnings? It has to be admitted that there are two equally unlikely steps involved in Lucan’s having obtained such an item.
The detectives investigating the case had apparently over-looked each of these questions and in addition they had failed to apprehend the chief suspect in the weeks immediately after the crime and in the following years while presumably he was in hiding which is still possibly the case today. In many respects it is as if the case has gone cold and the refrain ‘where is Lord Lucan?’ has become nothing more than a joke.
Is it possible that the account we have of the Lucan story is not entirely accurate? Indeed Lucan’s behaviour at the time of the murder if what we have been told is true, would have been completely crazy to say the least especially when it is considered that he was a lord. The crime was apparently motiveless and driven by pure passion, and what was worse was that he had apparently killed the nanny by mistake. The latter also occurring despite of the fact that the nanny did not bear the slightest resemblance to his wife, their hair coloration being completely different. The later unsuccessful attempt on his wife’s life was a second blunder which is rather surprising considering Lucan’s military background.
The behaviour of the couple prior to the crime also shows evidence of peculiarity. Lucan’s existence after the separation with his wife was a rather sheltered and ponderous one and it would seem that from this point onward his entire life revolved around gambling. Indeed it is even claimed that he ‘earnt his living’ in this way which is again extremely peculiar for a lord. Despite of his investments in Ireland and obvious influence in high society, the net result was that, as the ‘house backgammon player’, he was in the employ of an entrepreneur. Indeed his attempt to take up an acting career was equally bizarre as apparently he had once auditioned for the part of ‘James Bond’.
In summary the Lord Lucan story is extremely peculiar to say the least and there are still many questions which remain unanswered.
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