Lord Lucan 'shot himself then was fed to this tiger':

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Breaking a 40-year silence, one of the missing peer's gambling set reveals what he insists REALLY happened within hours of Lucan killing the nanny

In the four decades that have since passed since his disappearance, a thousand and one theories have been put forward as to what has become of Lord Lucan. The peer vanished aged 39 after the body of family nanny Sandra Rivett was found bludgeoned to death at his London home. Now one of his old friends has claimed the aristocrat shot himself dead and had his body fed to a tiger at a private zoo in Kent to avoid being prosecuted for her murder.