Fugitive Lord May Be In Southern Africa

Police believe that Lord Lucan, the British aristocrat who vanished in 1974 after his children’s nanny was bludgeoned to death, may be living in southern Africa and are monitoring trips there by the children, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The Observer quoted a recently retired Scotland Yard detective who led the long-standing murder inquiry from 1990 as saying that trailing the Lucan children abroad was hampered by lack of funds.

A spokeswoman at Scotland Yard refused to confirm or deny the report.

The Lucan nanny, Sandra Rivett, was battered to death in a dark basement at their London home Nov. 7, 1974. Police suspect Lucan mistook the nanny for his estranged wife, Veronica, who he then attacked and seriously injured.