You may remember reading about Lord Lucan in the papers late last year. To refresh your memory, Lady Lucan burst into a Belgravia pub near closing time one night, covered in blood and bruises and screaming blue murder. In her nearby flat the cops found the body of the family's nanny stuffed into a t sack, and when they tried to contact the estranged Lord Lucan , he couldn't foe found. Now the newspapers have a very strange manner of reporting police masters. "A man is helping police with enquiries" means a suspect is having the info beaten out of him in a back room. "He asked for 416 other crimes to be taken into consideration" (an actual quote' from yesterday's paper) means the poor sod has been hit in court with that many rhore wrongdoings.

So, the papers's reportage of the Lucan case implied that the police thought him guilty, especially since it was obvious from his movements just prior to and after the murder that he was involved, but was just obtuse enough to leave you wondering. Later, I found out from a Fleet Street habitue that the cops" scenario had Lord Lucan lurking downstairs waiting to off the missus because she had fixed their imminent divorce so he wouldn't be able to even see their children. The nanny came down to make some tea, and since her hairstyle was similar, and she was wearing one of Lady Lucan's coats, he mistook her until it was too late. When the nanny didn't return, Lady Lucan went downstairs and found her hubby stuffing said nanny into a sack. He jumped her but she appealed to his reason via the children; since he had already cocked it up, and if she were dead and he were in jail, what then?