Lord Lucan probably committed suicide in the Channel after leaving Britain, according to his best friend.

BBC: Lucan 'committed suicide'

In the 1970s he tried to destroy Private Eye after it suggested that he had helped whisk away Lord Lucan, a gaming friend who had allegedly murdered his nanny.

ECONOMIST: Jimmy Goldsmith

"Instructions were to make arrangements for John Bingham, also known as Lord Lucan, to see his children and to do that I had to book his two eldest children on flights to Africa, " she said.

BBC: Witnesses reveal Lord Lucan's 'secret life in Africa'