Lord Lucan mystery deepens as multiple ex-detectives come forward with new information

The son of murdered Sandra Rivett, Neil Berriman, described the huge ongoing support he's received following the recent bombshell BBC2 documentary as 'overwhelming'

Several ex-police officers have come forward in connection with the Lord Lucan murder investigation following the dramatic BBC documentary series.

They are part of an “overwhelming” response from people providing “new” information to the son of the nanny murdered by Lucan. Former Scotland Yard cops have contacted Sandra Rivett’s son Neil Berriman - who believes he has tracked down missing Lucan who is now living as a buddhist in a remote Australian compound.

In the BBC2 three-part series, the elderly Englishman, who Neil alleges to be Lucan, snapped: "If I am Lord Lucan what the f**k you going to do? Put me in prison?" Neil is now sifting through the hundreds of emails he has received. The scale of the response stunned him.

He told the Mirror: “We have been inundated with tens of thousands of visits to the website LordLucanthetruth.com. We’ve also been overwhelmed with emails - some of them are coming from ex-police officers. Much of the information we’ve received is fascinating.

“If you were a serving police officer it would have been impossible to speak about Lucan. But now, of course, once they’ve retired they are much freer to speak. The TV series has sparked a huge amount of interest. The support I’ve received has been brilliant.”

Back in 2020 the Mirror revealed how Neil, a Hampshire building contractor, claimed to have tracked down Lucan living in a remote Australia Buddhist commune. This investigation was the basis of last week’s three part documentary series.

In 2022 we revealed how one of the world’s prominent AI and Facial Recognition experts compared photos of the old man and Lucan, taken before his disappearance in 1974. Professor Hassan Ugail analysed them through his complex algorithms and concluded they were the same man.

Lucan vanished in 1974 after the murder of Sandra. He was named as the killer by an inquest jury a year later. He fled and was never seen again. Some thought he committed suicide by jumping off across channel ferry. Others believed he escaped with the help of well-connected friends.

Lucan was officially declared dead by the High Court in 1999, but sightings have been reported in Australia, Ireland, Africa and New Zealand. In 2016, Lucan's son Lord George Bingham inherited his title as the eighth earl after he applied for a death certificate 42 years after his father disappeared, under the Presumption of Death Act 2013.