LORD LUCAN FOUND...LIVING AS A MONK IN BRISBANE!

Bombshell new evidence could end the baffling 48-year hunt for the fugitive Englishman who beat his children's nanny to death

He was the tall, dark and handsome Eton-educated aristocrat with a penchant for fast cars and high-stakes gambling, once considered so dashing he was even on a short list to play the famous role of 007 in the James Bond movies.

But beneath the veneer of gentility lay a sinister side to the seventh Earl of Lucan.

On the evening of November 7, 1974, he exploded in rage and bludgeoned his three children's 29-year-old nanny Sandra Rivett to death with a lead pipe in the dark basement of the family's Belgravia mansion, before also attacking his estranged wife, Lady Lucan.

FUGITIVE LORD

He fled from the gruesome scene of the crime, driving to a friend's house in Uckfield in East Sussex, with his car later being found abandoned in the seaside town of Newhaven with its interior stained with blood and a lead pipe similar to the one used to kill Sandra in the car's boot.

This would be the last confirmed sighting of the fugitive killer, who vanished without a trace, despite a massive police hunt. It was also the beginning of a 48-year mystery that may have finally been solved in, of all places, Brisbane, Australia.