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Search for Lord Lucan after body is found By Clive Borrell. Special squads of detectives were searching the West End of London, last night for ,Lord Lucan, aged 39, after the death of his children's nurse and an attack on his estranged wife. A senior Scotland Yard. officer said: "We are tteating this case as one of murder and attenipted murder and we feel that Lord Lucan should be told of the details as soon as pos- sible. We are anxious to inter- view him." Police were called to Lord Lucan's home in Lower Bel. grave Street late dn Thursday night. Lady Lucan, aged 35,. had staggered into the bar of the Plumbers' Arms, a public house near by, shouting: " Mur- der, murder, I think my neck has been broken; he tried to kill me ". Blood was pouring from sev- eral wounds on her head. "I think I am dying ", she said. " Please look after my children, my children." Lady Lucan was taken to St George's Hospital, where last night she was said to be com- fortable. When the poilice arrived at the house they found Mrs Sandra Rivett, aged 29, of Coulsdon, Surrey, dead, trussed up in a sack. She had been beaten to death with a blunt instrument, thought to be a lead pipe. Her murderer is believed to have been trying to carry the body out of the house when Lady Lucan disturbed him. The son and two daughters of the marriage, who earlier this year were made wards of court, were not aware of the murder or attack on their mother, the police said last night. Lady Lucan was told by detectives that her children, Lord Bingham, aged seven, Lady Frances Bingham, aged 10, and Lady Camilla Bingham, aged four, Were being cared for. She made a statement describ- ing her attacker. Only a few minutes after the body had been found detectives went to Lord Lucan's home in Eaton Road, where he has set up home. People saw the police hcck at the door until it burst open and others saw an officer smash a downstairs window. It was leirnt last night.that Lord Lucan telephoned his widowed mother at abo4t inid- night on Thursday and is under- stood to have told her he had earlier been to his wife's home. Lord Lucan's car, a Datsun, was found abandoned in the Whitehall area of London on Thursday night and was taken to Gerald Road police station, where fingerprint experts examined it. The officer in charge of the murder hunt is Detective Chief Superintendent Roy Ranson. Lord Lucan and his wife, the daughter of a former Army officer, were married In 1963. He succeeded to the earldom in 1964. He was educated at Eton and served with the Coldstream Guards. Divorce proceedings were started earlier this year and Lord and Lady Lucan had been living apart for some time. Phptograph, page 2 Search for Lord Lucan after body is found
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