Gifts for all the family - Viva Lewes

and spent two hours with Susan Maxwell-
Scott, who gave him a scotch and water,
and listened to his implausible account
of what had happened, which he called ‘a
night of terrible coincidences’.
So why did he then continue his journey
to Newhaven, even without the body in
the boot of the car? Again, there’s a simple
explanation. Presumably the fisherman
in charge of the body-disposal operation
would still be waiting for him, unaware of
the fact that he had bungled the murder.
And presumably this character could be
persuaded, instead of dumping the body
of Lady Lucan, to take her husband away
in his boat.
After that, it’s anyone’s guess what happened.
Some suggest Lucan ‘did the honourable
thing’, killed himself, and it was
his body that ended up weighted down to
the bottom of the sea. Others have it that,
making good use of his influential contacts
(the ‘Clermont Set’ he belonged to included
the likes of John Aspinall and Jimmy
Goldsmith) he was whisked away to a safe
house somewhere in Europe. Many theorise
that he was subsequently spirited off to
a different continent, with a new identity.
Pearson believes in Susan Maxwell-Scott’s
theory, shared by her (also late) husband
Ian: Lucan became a liability to those who
had rescued him, and was executed and
buried, possibly in Switzerland.
Whatever the case, there is almost certainly
somebody other than Susan Maxwell-Scott
who saw and talked to Lord
Lucan in the small hours of the night of
the murder. And perhaps that person is
still walking around the streets of Newhaven
today. V