Widow of Lord Lucan found dead at home
Written by News on 27/09/2017
Lady Lucan, whose husband famously vanished more than 40 years ago, has been found dead at her home.
Police forced entry into the 80-year-old’s home in Westminster on Tuesday after she was reported missing and she was found unresponsive inside.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "Police attended an address on Eaton Row in Westminster… following concerns for the welfare of an elderly occupant.
"Officers forced entry and found an 80-year-old woman unresponsive.
"Although we await formal identification we are confident that the deceased is Lady Lucan."
Her death is being treated as unexplained, but is not believed to be suspicious.
George Bingham, her son and the 8th Earl Lucan, told the Daily Mail: "She passed away yesterday at home, alone and apparently peacefully.
"Police were alerted by a companion to a three-day absence and made entry today."
Lady Lucan was one of the last people to see her husband John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, alive before he mysteriously disappeared.
He vanished after the body of Sandra Rivett, nanny to his three children, was found at the family home in central London on 7 November, 1974.
Lord Lucan was officially declared dead by the High Court in 1999, but he has reportedly been sighted in Australia, Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand.
There have even been claims he fled to India and lived as a hippy known as "Jungly Barry".
On the same night as his disappearance, the attacker also severely beat Lady Lucan before she managed to escape and raise the alarm at a nearby pub.
Lucan’s car was later found abandoned and soaked in blood in Newhaven, East Sussex, and an inquest jury ruled the wealthy peer the killer a year later.
Earlier this year Lady Lucan – formally known as Veronica, Dowager Countess of Lucan – gave an interview in which she said she believed her husband had made the "brave" decision to take his own life.
She told the ITV documentary: "I would say he got on the ferry and jumped off in the middle of the Channel in the way of the propellers so that his remains wouldn’t be found – I think quite brave."
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