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Lord Lucan, a British peer, disappeared without trace early on 8 November 1974. Once considered for the role of James Bond, he was a charismatic man with expensive tastes who he raced power boats and drove an Aston Martin. In 1963 he married Veronica Duncan, who bore him three children. When the marriage collapsed late in 1972, a bitter custody battle ensued. On the evening of 7 November 1974, the children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, was bludgeoned to death in the basement of the family home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street in London (pictured). Lady Lucan was also attacked, and identified Lucan as her assailant. He drove a borrowed Ford Corsair to a friend's house that was later found abandoned, its interior stained with blood and its boot containing a piece of bandaged lead pipe similar to one found at the crime scene. He was never seen again. A warrant was issued for his arrest, and in his absence, the inquest into Rivett's death named him as her murderer, the last occasion in Britain a coroner's court was allowed to do so. His fate remains a mystery. Despite a police investigation and huge press interest, Lucan has never been found and is presumed dead.