Who was Lord Lucan’s friend Ian Maxwell-Scott?

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IAN Maxwell-Scott was a British aristocrat who was adjacent friends with the missing slayer Lord Lucan.

Lucan’s shocking crime volition beryllium explored successful an eponymous BBC documentary which volition diagnostic the lad of his lone known victim.

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Friends successful precocious places

Maxwell-Scott was calved connected July 18, 1927, into an aristocratic background.

His begetter was Rear-Admiral Malcolm Raphael Joseph Constable Maxwell-Scott, an aide-de-camp to King George V, and his parent was named Fearga Victoria Mary O’Conor.

The aristocrat joined Susan Mary Clark, a debutante who had go a regular diagnostic successful tabloid gossip columns.

Her begetter disapproved of the lucifer and refused to be their wedding connected Valentine’s Day 1958.

At the time, Susan’s begetter told the Daily Mail: “I similar the antheral who does an honorable day’s enactment to immoderate magnitude of nobility oregon household names.”

Ian was a nonrecreational gambler and croupier (someone who works successful a casino), which helped him onslaught up a adjacent relationship with chap gambler Lord Lucan.

Lucan, whose existent sanction was Richard John Bingham, began to sojourn the family’s location successful Sussex often and brought his wife, Veronica, and their 3 children with him.

According to Susan, Veronica disliked visiting the Sussex manor that the Maxwell-Scotts called home.

She said: ‘I can’t precisely pinpoint the break-up successful the matrimony of the Lucans, John and Veronica”

“’They often utilized to bring their household down to our location successful Sussex for quiescent play parties.

“We’d play tennis, aquatics successful our pool, oregon possibly play croquet.

“There were surely nary scenes.

“But John did speech to maine astir difficulties.

“He said Veronica had the feeling that each his friends were against her and trying to travel betwixt them.

“And she didn’t privation to spell distant and enactment with friends.”

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Lucan’s horrifying crime

Ian was staying successful London erstwhile Lord Lucan mysteriously appeared astatine the Maxwell-Scotts’ Sussex location connected the nighttime of November 7, 1974, but his woman Susan was home.

She fto Lucan enactment implicit for the night, initially unaware of the shocking transgression the aristocrat had committed successful West London.

At 9pm connected November 7, Veronica, present divorced from her husband, sent her children’s nanny into the basement to fetch her a cupful of beverage but grew suspicious erstwhile Sandra Rivett, the nanny, did not return.

When Veronica went down to investigate, she was attacked by a antheral that she claimed was Lord Lucan, her ex-husband.

After a bitter conflict which ended with Veronica reasoning with Lucan, she ran into a section pub and called for help, each the portion dripping with blood.

A constabulary hunt of the location recovered the nanny’s assemblage successful a sack, on with the execution limb that the slayer had used.

According to Susan, Lucan had breached into the location to prevention his woman from different attacker.

He disappeared the adjacent morning, making Ian’s woman the precise past idiosyncratic to ever spot Lord Lucan alive.

An inquest, held successful 1975, recovered that Lucan was liable for the transgression wrong 31 minutes.

The probe considered a wide scope of evidence, including Veronica’s witnesser connection and the find of the nanny’s humor connected Lucan’s tyres.

Lucan was ne'er seen again, sparking speculation that helium had fled to Africa oregon that helium whitethorn person committed termination aft his crime.

Susan ever insisted that her person was innocent, until she died successful 2004.

Her husband, Ian, died implicit 10 years earlier her connected November 27, 1993.