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Lord Lucan death certificate granted | |
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Lord Lucan is now presumed to be dead, a High Court judge has ruled. | Lord Lucan is now presumed to be dead, a High Court judge has ruled. |
A death certificate has been issued 42 years after the peer vanished when his children's nanny was bludgeoned to death in London. | |
He was declared dead in 1999, despite dozens of unverified sightings, but the new ruling gives his son the right to inherit the family title. | |
Lord Lucan, who disappeared in 1974, would be 81 if he were still alive. | |
Belgravia death | |
His son, Lord Bingham, said: "I am very happy with the judgment of the court in this matter. It has been a very long time coming." | |
Lucan disappeared after Sandra Rivett was found dead at 46 Lower Belgrave St, Belgravia on 7 November, 1974. | |
He drove to a friend's house in East Sussex in a borrowed car, which was later found abandoned in Newhaven with bloodstains inside. | |
The mystery of his whereabouts excited decades of speculation. | |
At a hearing in December Ms Rivett's son Neil Berriman, was given permission to intervene in the case. | |
But speaking after today's ruling Mr Berriman, 49, said: "I think [Lucan is] dead. It is fantastic and I am very pleased for [Bingham]." | |
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