{"id":241324,"date":"2022-11-07T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=241324"},"modified":"2022-11-09T13:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:25:02","slug":"lord-lucan-solved-missing-murder-suspect-dead-ringer-for-aussie-buddhist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/lord-lucan-solved-missing-murder-suspect-dead-ringer-for-aussie-buddhist\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Lucan, Missing Gentleman Gambler and Murder Suspect, May Be Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facial recognition experts believe they have solved the enduring mystery surrounding the whereabouts of British professional gambler and suspected murderer Lord Lucan.<\/p>\n

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Lord Lucan, above, hasn’t been seen since 1974, shortly after his children\u2019s nanny was bludgeoned to death at his home in a fashionable part of London. (Image: UPPA-ZUMA Press<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hassan Ugail, Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Bradford, England, says the missing-presumed-dead aristocrat appears to be very much alive. He claims his world-leading AI photo analysis technology has identified that Lucan and an 87-year-old living in Brisbane, Australia, are the same man, or they are identical twins.<\/p>\n

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Lucan, full name Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in 1974. That’s after he allegedly bludgeoned to death his children\u2019s nanny, Sandra Rivett, at his home in Belgravia, an upmarket London district. Scotland Yard investigators believe it was a case of mistaken identity, and his intended target was his wife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Lucan\u2019s car was later found in Newhaven, a ferry port on England\u2019s south coast, its interior stained with blood. Its owner had disappeared without a trace.<\/p>\n

Cluedo Mystery<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Detectives found three cards from the board game Cluedo<\/em> in the car: \u201cColonel Mustard,\u201d \u201cthe lead piping,\u201d and \u201cthe hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lucan, a heavily mustachioed ex-military man, bore a passing resemblance to the Cluedo <\/em>character. Meanwhile, a piece of lead piping was used in Rivett\u2019s murder. And while the victim\u2019s body was found in the kitchen of the Lucans\u2019 home, there was a large amount of blood in the hall, suggesting this is where the killing may have taken place.<\/p>\n

Few crimes have captured the imagination of the British public as Rivett\u2019s murder and Lucan\u2019s subsequent disappearance. Hundreds of unsubstantiated sightings of the rogue earl have been reported worldwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucan was officially presumed dead in 1992 and declared legally dead in 1999, allowing his son, George, to inherit his title.<\/p>\n

\u2018Never Been Wrong\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ugail claims his recognition technology has \u201cnever been wrong.\u201d It was used to identify the two Russian agents responsible for poisoning the former spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in Salisbury, England.<\/p>\n

It also identified three men linked to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. It helped uncover an alleged Nazi war criminal last year.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The photos] produced a match. This isn\u2019t an opinion, it\u2019s science and mathematical fact,\u201d Ugail said. \u201cWe can now confirm things that would have been impossible just five years ago. We\u2019ve compared thousands and thousands of people and there have been literally millions of photos that we\u2019ve analyzed using the algorithm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cPeople of different ethnicities, different ages \u2013 the only time it will fail is if you put in identical twins. It only takes a few minutes to run it, and it comes back with a percentage \u2013 a \u2018similarity index,\u2019\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Face-Match, Age-Match<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The mystery senior citizen in Brisbane is the same age as Lucan. He is \u201ca Buddhist\u201d who previously lived in Nepal before coming to Australia, where he \u201cmoved from house to house,\u201d according to The<\/em> Daily<\/em> Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He was tracked down by Rivett\u2019s son, Neil Berriman, who has devoted his life to finding his mother\u2019s killer. It\u2019s unclear what led Berriman to the man in Brisbane.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Aston Martin-driving Lucan frequented illegal gambling houses for the wealthy in Belgravia and Mayfair until casino gaming was legalized in the UK in 1964. With John Aspinall<\/a>, he was a founding member of Mayfair\u2019s exclusive Claremont Club casino, where baccarat was his game of choice.<\/p>\n

His gambling friends knew him as \u201cLucky.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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