Breakthrough in Lord Lucan case as mystery man’s face is exact match to killer
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A facial recognition expert has said photographs of a man in Australia are a definite "match" for fugitive murderer Lord Lucan.
Monday (November 7) will mark the 48th anniversary of when British peer Lucan murdered family nanny Sandra Rivett.
Lucan, who would now be 87, vanished the following day amid claims he lept from a cross-channel ferry.
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Leading computer scientist Professor Hassan Ugail now reckons he's found a match for the killer in Australia, reports the Mirror.
Prof Ugail, who ID-ed two of the Russians behind the Salisbury Skripal poisonings, used an artificial intelligence algorithm to cross-check three images of the mystery pensioner and four of Lucan.
He told the Mirror: “They produced a match. This isn’t an opinion, it’s science and mathematical fact.”
The pensioner is 87 and lives in a small town outside of Brisbane. He was initially tracked down by Rivett’s son Neil Berriman.
Mr Berriman said: "I’ve spent nine years trying to prove this man is Lucan. Now, with this new scientific information, the police must act."
Prof Ugail’s efforts included micro-millimetre measurements of spaces between facial features.
A second company, a highly respected US firm, ran the same tests and came to the same conclusion.
Prof Ugail said: "We’ve compared thousands and thousands of people and there have been literally millions of photos that we’ve analysed using the algorithm.
"It has never been wrong."
“Anything with a similarity index of 75% or higher is conclusively the same individual.
“The lowest score I got was around 76. I think the highest was 88.”
When Mr Berriman initially contacted Prof Ugail, he did not tell him about who he suspected was in the pictures.
Lady Lucan – Veronica Bingham – fled from her house in Belgravia, central London, covered in blood on November 7, 1974.
Safe in a nearby pub, the Plumbers Arms, she told how she had heard screams from the basement, and found her husband there.
She said he attacked her. His car, its interior stained with blood, was later found abandoned in Newhaven, East Sussex. A piece of bandaged lead pipe was found in the boot.
In 1975, an inquest jury found Lord Lucan – formerly John Bingham – to be responsible for Sandra Rivett’s death. Her body was found in his home. Lucan was declared legally dead in 2016.
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