List of press articles

From Lord Lucan

Revision as of 21:48, 4 June 2006

1998

At the end of April, Camilla Bingham announced her engagement, and Lady Lucan asked the executor of her husband's will to swear an affidavit attesting to the fact that he believes the earl is dead. 26th April: The Daily Telegraph erroneously reports that the hunt for Lucan still costs thousands of pounds each year.

9th August: I would have taken him back said Lady Lucan in the Mirror. 8th & 10th August: The Daily Mail prints Lord Lucan: My Father An interview with George Bingham by friend William Sitwell. This explains George Bingham's views on the matter. 10th September: George Bingham was arrested on charges of assault, later dropped. This was widely reported the following week.

18th September: The Evening Standard prints Imogen Brewer's version of events.

19th September: The Daily Mail prints Lord Lucan's wife reveals her agony as an outsider by Glenys Roberts discussing non-invitation to the nearby service of blessing. Lady Lucan says no interview took place. 20th September: The Sunday Times prints The Strange Fate of Lady Lucan, a fascinating interview with Lady Lucan by Margarette Driscoll.

1999

22nd March: The Daily Express prints an interview with Lady Lucan called A noble man by Gerard Greaves. 31st July: It was widely reported that the Lord Chancellor rejected George Bingham's application to take his father's seat in the House of Lords. Lord Irvine was not satisfied of Lord Lucan's death.

At the end of October, the High Court ruled that the British earl is dead, allowing the executors to finalise details relating to his estate. This was widely reported. 30th October: The Irish Times published a profile of Lord Lucan by Kitty Holland following another refusal by Lord Lucan's Irish tenants to pay their rent. 31st October: The Daily Telegraph publish My noble lord, an interview with Lady Lucan by Andrew Alderson. Lucan is alive and one day we will catch him was printed in the Daily Mail by Chester Stern who said Lucan was in the Seychelles. A half serious article Enemy of the People appeared in The Sunday Times.

2000

9th January: The Daily Express revealed the Krays' preferred method of disposal matched Lord Lucan's disappearance according to The Krays: Unfinished Business. In February, an ageing John Aspinall went on the record as believing Lord Lucan committed suicide. 9th April, Local Papers reported Tim Connor's claim that he met Lucan in Austrailia. At the end of April, Lady Lucan informed www.lordlucan.com that the address belonged to her son. In June, Lady Lucan advised Muriel Spark against publishing a fiction based on Lord Lucan.

2nd July: The Daily Telegraph printed an obituary of John Aspinall by Lynn Barber, unfortunately titled Lord Lucan's last secret goes to the grave among gorillas [1]. Patrick Marnham wasted his breath on Muriel Spark in late September, inciting a rebuke from Aspinall's stepson.

2001

In early November, photographs of the crime scene were published. 10th November: The Daily Mail reported on the contrasting fortunes of Stephen Hensby and George Bingham by Geoffrey Levy.

2002

2nd January: The Daily Express printed a belated announcement of Lady Lucan's website by Adrian Lee. 23rd March: The Daily Mail printed an interview with Lady Camilla Bloch by Ross Benson. 10th November: The Sunday Times prints Rent time as a Lucan returns giving an overview of the still unresolved Castlebar tenants.

2003

7th September: The Sunday Telegraph report of Barry Halpin as Lord Lucan in Goa, coincides with the release of Dead Lucky. 9th September: Both article and book fully discredited in Guardian, Telegraph, Evening Standard, BBC and Sky. 14th September: George and Camilla Bingham discuss Barry Halpin in the Sunday Telegraph. 20th September: Largely unnoticed in the Independent's Obituary of publisher James Hale, was a claim he, as neighbour, overheard Lady Lucan talking to Lord Lucan on the phone after his disappearance.

2004

24th September: The Daily Mail report Metropolitan Commissioner of Police Sir John Stevens refusal of a request by detectives to reopen the Rivett case. 10th October: James Fox in the Sunday Telegraph claims he saw the envelope Michael Stoop disposed of, and he published in the Spectator the photographer in Mexico 1973. 16th October: Daily Mail print a computer adjusted photograph of Lord Lucan at age 70, and mention that the murder weapon has been lost since a couple of years ago. They add that the case has been reopened and the police want the children's DNA for comparison. 17th October: The Sunday Telegraph reprint the crime scene photograph. Lady Lucan declined to comment, and a letter critical of Lucan was published. The Independent cover all this very sceptically. 18th October: The Evening Standard report that the case has not been re-opened at all according to Metropolitan Police. 27th October: Daily Mail repeat a lot of aspects of the case. 31st Daily Mail Report? Ex-MP accuses Goldsmith 6th November: The Times, The Guardian and the Independent report. 7th November: The Sunday Telegraph report on the tragic thirtieth anniversary of the murder of Sandra Rivett. 11th November: The Hunt for Lord Lucan documentary broadcast on Channel 4 with Lord Lucan's son's first TV interview. 12th November: Daily Mail report on the case.

2005

The Observer report the auction of Lucan's copy of Mein Kampf 7th March: BBC report. 26th June: Extract from Lucan chapter of John Pearson's book The Gamblers published in the Sunday Times[2]. Lady Lucan response[3].

2006