lucan

[DrummondStreet]

Didn't the police suspect for a long time that Lucan was living in South Africa? Apparently his children made many, many trips to S. Africa arousing police suspicion. They even sent people there to investigate but came up empty handed.

Off-topic but has anyone else noticed the strong physical resemblance between Lord Lucan and Hemingway?

[Lord Lucan]

She thinks he would have thrown himself into the ferry propellers. A last game of roulette?

I didn't do it, I swear!
Humour aside, I feel that he briefly was on the run, a matter of weeks maybe, though the guilt will have driven him to take his life. How (and how he remains undiscovered) I can't say.

[Robert]

She thinks he would have thrown himself into the ferry propellers. A last game of roulette?

[Limehouse]

I think you have summed up Lucan and his friends really well.

I think it's entirely possible he did do away with himself because I think he was a coward, and as has been stated, he was not going to be a good surviver outside his own set. On the other hand, I would not put it past that lost to whisk him away somewhere to escape justice.

I suppose we can't expect his children to suffer for the sins of their father, but how many other criminal's children get to go to top boarding schools? If the children's schooling money had been kept in trust, death duties should not have affected their education.

I heard he was heavily in dept so I am surprised there was any money left to pay death duties on.

[miss marple]

Ah well, The Lucan mystery has reared its ugly head head again with the claim by a supposed employee of John Aspinall[ now dead] saying that Lucan was hiding in Africa and she had procured tickets for his children to go on an African trip so he could 'observe them unseen' in the late seventies.
Inside out tonight BBC 1 7.30
I think he committed suicide, but not in the way Lady Lucan suggests, see Daily Telegraph today. Sad interview, the stupid cow actually said that after he beat Sandra Rivett to death,[ thinking she was Lady Lucan] then starting to beat her to death that she would have covered up for him over Rivett had she not been so badly injured!!
After all he only killed the nanny.[ thats my irony]
The Lucan, Aspinall crowd were a nasty bunch of racist, snobbish, elitist pricks who were quite capable of whisking Lucan away, but I do think he killed himself, not capable of living outside his gambling set.
Lady Lucan makes the point that he was not declared dead for several years because the death duties would have been impossible while the children were still at school and their education had to be paid for.
What do others think about the Lucan case?

Miss Marple