“Despite investing hours every week researching the Lucan case, Neil’s day job is a builder”.
Despite investing hours every week researching the Lucan case, examining old files and statements that have been buried from public view for decades, my actual day job is a builder, working on house extensions, roofing and that sort of thing.
My personal journey investigating the murder of my mum started more than a decade ago when I was approached by an investigative journalist for the BBC called Glen Campbell. He’d found a secret Scotland Yard intelligence file written in 2002 that said the Police had credible intelligence Richard John Bingham, Lord Lucan, was alive and living abroad in the late nineties, some 25 years after he vanished from Grants Hill House in Uckfield, Sussex.
Glen’s findings and additional research ignited in me a desire for justice, so we agreed to set out together and investigate further, peeling away the layers of lies and deception and using social media and new investigative research skills to put fresh information into the public arena.
“Sometimes months went by without a break-through, then all of a sudden we would strike gold”.
Sometimes months went by without a break-through, then all of a sudden we would strike gold, propelling our research further and opening new doors we didn’t know even existed. Shirley Robey was one such case, a lovely lady who approached us to tell the story of how as a young woman she had been an office manager in one of Lucan’s friend’s casinos. Shirley’s story was fascinating as she recounted how she had been secretly tasked with sending money in the 1980’s to Africa by her then boss John Aspinall, who’d told her it was to help fund ‘his old pal Lucan.’ Shirley’s account made front page news appearing in the Daily Telegraph, the favourite newspaper of the landed gentry and aristocrats here in England.
With my daughter at The Plumbers Arms, where Veronica Bingham, Lady Lucan ran to on the night of the murder. Melissa wanted to raise a glass to her grandmother Sandra,
“Over the years I’ve spoken to people on all sides of this story”.
Since my first BBC programmes with Glen, I’ve appeared on countless other radio and television shows. Each time my message is simple, Lucan DID get away to live a new life abroad and my mother’s murder WILL NOT go unsolved. After each appearance I get messages from people across the globe, small chunks of information, hearsay, and intelligence that all pours in and is processed through our vast research files to be cross referenced and analysed.
“Each time my message is simple, Lucan DID get away to live a new life abroad and my mother’s murder WILL NOT go unsolved”.
Over the years I’ve spoken to people on all sides of this story. Before her death I corresponded a number of times with Veronica, The Countess of Lucan, who employed my mother in 1974 and became her friend and confidant. I’ve spoken with George Bingham, Lucan’s son and now of course the new Lord Lucan. We remain in contact and respect each others differing views on his father’s vanishing act back in 1974. The new Lord Lucan is ironically now trying to drill for oil not far from the spot where his father was last seen that fateful night back in November 1974.