Nicknamed 'Lucky Lucan', the Right Honourable Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, vanished in 1974 after his children's nanny Sandra Rivett was found dead in his estranged wife's London home.
The mystery surrounding his disappearance after 38-years has led to more than 70 sightings of him in countries like South Africa, Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands.
But now a woman, who worked for one of his gambling acquaintances, the late John Aspinall, has revealed to the BBC she arranged flights for his children to Africa so he could view them 'from a distance'. The woman has revealed Lord Lucan was living a secret life in Africa in the 1980s after he went missing.
The theory has been confirmed by a former detective detective who said he received a tip-off from a credible witness that Lucan was living on the continent.
The woman, who asked not to be identified but assumed the name of Jill Findlay for the Inside Out programme, said she was an assistant to Mr Aspinall, the multi-millionaire zoo and casino owner who died in 2000.
She said she was often privy to meetings where the missing aristocrat was discussed by her boss and Sir James Goldsmith, the multi-millionaire businessman.
'Instructions were to make arrangements for John Bingham, also known as Lord Lucan, to see his children and to do that I had to book his two eldest children on flights to Africa,' she said.
'I don't know the exact dates but it was between 1979 and 1981 and it was on two occasions I booked flights.' Ms Findlay said the children would have visited Kenya and Gabon but did not meet or speak to their father.
His children's nanny Ms Rivett was found murdered in November 1974 after Lucan allegedly mistook her for his wife. He also attacked Lady Lucan who was savagely beaten but she managed to escape and raise the alarm at a nearby pub.
Later that night he is thought to have fled to friends in Sussex and his car was found abandoned at Newhaven, East Sussex. He was never seen in the UK again.
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