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On the evening of 7 November 1974,
Sandra Rivett, the nanny of Lucan's children,
was bludgeoned to death in the kitchen
of the Lucan family home.
Lady Lucan was also attacked after going to
investigate Rivett's whereabouts.
She identified Lord Lucan as her assailant.
Lucan had, by then, driven to visit a friend
in Uckfield, East Sussex.
Lucan then telephoned his mother
and asked her to collect his children,
saying there had been an incident at
the family home; he also penned a letter.
His car was later found abandoned in Newhaven,
its interior stained with blood
and its boot containing a piece of bandaged lead pipe
similar to one found at the crime scene.
By the time the police issued a warrant
for his arrest a few days later,
Lucan had vanished.
At the inquest into Rivett's death,
held in June 1975, the jury returned a
verdict naming Lucan as her killer.]