Lord Lucan was a British peer suspected of murder who disappeared in 1974. Once considered for the role of James Bond in the cinematic adaptations of Ian Fleming’s novels, Lucan was known for his expensive tastes; he raced powerboats and drove an Aston Martin. On the evening of 7 November 1974, his children’s nanny, Sandra Rivett, was bludgeoned to death in the basement of the Lucan family home. As the police began their murder investigation, Lucan telephoned his mother, asking her to collect the children, and then drove a borrowed Ford Corsair to a friend’s house in Uckfield, East Sussex. Hours later, he left the property and vanished without trace.
Lord Lucan
