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EXCLUSIVE - He's NOT Lord Lucan: Home Office-approved facial recognition experts conclude British Buddhist,
87, living in Australia is NOT missing aristocrat who vanished after nanny was bludgeoned to death 48 years ago

*Lord Lucan vanished in 1974 after being accused of brutally murdering his family's nanny with a lead pipe
*An algorithm that a leading data scientist claims is 'never wrong' matched a man's photo to Lord Lucan
*However Home Office-approved facial recognition experts concluded that the match is not the missing Lord

'An elderly British Buddhist living in Australia is not the missing fugitive peer Lord Lucan, who disappeared in 1974
after murdering his family's nanny, facial recognition experts have told MailOnline.

The mystery of Lucan's whereabouts has intrigued detectives and the public for decades, and the latest claim that
he is a British expat aged 87 living in a commune near Brisbane stoked the rumour mill once again. The theory was
proposed by the nanny Sandra Rivett's surviving son, Neil Berriman, who tracked down the mystery pensioner in
Australia and was convinced he was the man who killed his mother nearly 50 years ago.

But now MailOnline has seen an analysis of the same man's photographs, compared with Lucan's, prepared by
a Home Office-approved team of facial recognition experts which definitively rules him out as Lucan. The news
lends extra weight to the man's categorical denials that he was Lucan, issued by his carers at a Buddhist retreat
in Brisbane.


Dr Shelina Jilani of Home Office-approved Acumé Forensic based her conclusions on the large protruding
ears of Male A (right, 1 and 1a), which were not apparent on Lucan (left, 1 and 1a). She also noted the marked
differences in the width of the nasal bridge between the two men, with Lucan (left, 2) having a narrow one and
Male A (right, 2) having a wide one.

Lord Lucan, who is accused of murdering nanny Sandra Rivett with a lead pipe in the basement kitchen of his
Belgravia home, is believed to have died after evading authorities for years, and theories that he may be living
in Australia have previously been touted, then debunked.

After a computer expert appeared to confirm the man as Lucan, Mr Berriman told the Mirror today: 'I've spent
nine years trying to prove this man is Lord Lucan. Now, with this new scientific information, the police must act.
This isn't emotion. It's fact.'
But a new imagery report seen by MailOnline proves beyond doubt that the man was not Lucan.

It used detailed facial mapping techniques and was compiled by Dr Shelina Jilani of Home Office-approved
Acumé Forensic, based in Leeds, whose experts frequently testify in court cases. The experts were given a
series of photographs of Lucan and the man in Australia by journalists from MailOnline's sister organisation,
The Mail on Sunday. The man was identified only as 'Male A'.

Dr Jilani concluded: 'The photographs of Lord Lucan bear sufficient features to eliminate the person from the
reference images of Male A.' She based her conclusions primarily on marked differences in the width of the
nasal bridge between the two men, with Lucan having a narrow one and Male A having a wide one.
Another feature was the large protruding ears of Male A, which were not apparent on Lucan.

Dr Jilani added: 'Factoring age related changes to morphology, there are features which are not comparable
between [Lord Lucan] and Male A.' It is understood that the conclusions were passed on to Mr Berriman, but
he was unconvinced of the man's innocence and subsequently approached the Mirror with his claims.

When confronted about his identity, the 87-year-old's carers reportedly denied he was Lord Lucan...'