Weapon Lord Lucan used to kill family nanny seen in extraordinary photo for the first time

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The weapon used by Lord Lucan to kill his family nanny has been seen for the first time since the murder scandal.Wednesday will mark 50 years since the notorious attack that stunned British high society.Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared on November 8, 1974, the day after Sandra Rivett, was murdered in the Lucan family home.Lucan’s wife Veronica had burst into the Plumbers Arms near their home saying she had been attacked by her husband and that he had admitted to killing Rivett.Lord Lucan had, by then, telephoned his mother, asking her to collect his children, and drove to visit a friend in Uckfield, East Sussex; to his mother and friend, he said he had intervened with an assailant attacking his wife.His car was later found abandoned in Newhaven, its interior stained with blood and its boot containing a piece of bandaged lead pipe similar to one found at the crime scene.Despite police issuing a warrant for his arrest, Lucan was never found.

At the inquest into Rivett’s death, held in June 1975, the jury returned a verdict naming Lucan as her killer. Lucan was declared legally dead in 1999, and a death certificate issued in 2016 allowed his titles to be inherited by his son George.The BBC are running three documentaries this week examining whether Lucan, who would now be 89, managed to escape the UK fleeing to live in Australia with the help of rich friends.

Back in 1974 police believed he planned to murder his wife but mistakenly killed Sandra.The photo of the lead piping used in the attack was taken 41 years ago inside Scotland Yard’s Black Museum by respected TV crime programme producer Sandy Kaye, who worked on shows like Police 5 and Crimestoppers, as part of her research for a documentary