Goodbye, Susie - thank you. That brief sentence, uttered on a doorstep in East Sussex in the early hours of Friday, November 8, 1974, are the last words known to have been spoken by Lord Lucan.
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'Susie' – Susan Maxwell-Scott, the wife of Lucan's close friend Ian – would later claim he'd kissed her 'gently on the cheek' before heading back to London. In his report that would have informed the Crown's case against Lucan, DCS Roy Ranson, who led the murder investigation, addressed inconsistencies in her witness statement and her 'strange' behaviour in the months that followed.
Unlike other members of the Lucan Set, in the years that followed the blood-spattered events at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, London SW1, she wrote to or gave interviews to newspapers, magazines and television. The Daily Mail's front page in November 1974 about Lord Lucan's disappearance and the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett
In the years that followed, the Maxwell-Scotts, who had six children, became firm friends with the Lucans, who would visit their home – Grants Hill House in Uckfield, Sussex – with their children. On one occasion when the Lucans were weekend guests, Susan scrawled on a wall in shoe polish: 'Don't let Lord George fall down the f****** stairs.' George was the Lucans' son and heir to the title.
'Possibly, of course, though I thought she and I got on very well, she resented the fact that my husband, Ian, and John mostly went out playing golf throughout the day. That left Veronica and me at home. It was against this background of deepening financial and domestic strife that the handsome 39-year-old is alleged to murdered his children's nanny Sandra Rivett, mistaking her for his estranged wife, who he also allegedly attacked on November 7, 1974 before going on the run.
Lady Lucan had five lacerations of the skull and forehead. They were deep and jagged and if she had received these wounds to the rear of her head, they may have been fatal. She also had lacerations on the inside of her mouth.An inquest into the death of Mrs Rivett was held in 1975. In his absence, the jury returned the verdict: 'Murder by Lord Lucan.'
'She'd sit at John's shoulder, while he was gambling, not even watching the play. She'd stay there just to be in the same room rather than go home to bed. She also recalled, in rather more colourful detail than her official witness statement, the night of the murder. According to Mrs Maxwell-Scott, Lucan repeated his claim that he stumbled on a mystery man attacking his estranged wife while walking past the family home.
'I pointed out to John that nobody could possibly imagine that if he'd hired the man he would go in when the man was actually there. It didn't seem to make sense. 'Once he'd spoken to his mother and was assured his children were safe, he relaxed. Then he asked me for some paper so he could write to Mr Shand-Kydd. He wrote two letters and left them here and we posted them the next morning.
However, Susan Maxwell-Scott's loyalty to Lucan was also a factor in her repeated engagement with the media. She reportedly wrote a letter to the Daily Star following renewed criticism of Lucan's friends by DCS Ranson in assisting the investigation. 'I fully and truthfully answered all questions. I also gave the permission to search the house and the grounds.
In episodes released daily from Monday 3 June to Friday 7 June, two real-life eminent barristers will argue whether Lord Lucan was innocent or guilty using the bombshell new document and unheard-of evidence in an unmissable twist on courtroom drama. She accompanied him abroad on book tours and writing trips and spent much of her time at his London penthouse overlooking the Thames.
Andrina Colquhoun said she had been in Greece with her partner when Archer had claimed he was with her. He was jailed for four years. In 1990, Andrina married businessman Robert Waddington with whom she had a son.Detectives always believed that Lucan and Andrina were more than just friends. But speaking to the Daily Mail just days after the murder, she denied he was her lover.
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