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The son of the nanny who was murdered in the basement of Lord Lucan’s home back in 1974 recently stated that he had found the murderer after 50 years of losing his mother.

Richard John Bingham, known as Lord Lucan, is said to have bludgeoned the nanny of his kids, Sandra Rivett, to death and somehow managed to disappear into thin air ever since.

Sandra’s son, Neil Berriman, has been tracking the whereabouts of Lord Lucan and hit gold when he started working with Professor Hassan Ugail, a world-leading authority on AI photo analysis.

Professor Ugail has previously helped unmask the Skripal poisoners and Jamal Khashoggi’s assassins, so what he found regarding Lucan seemed promising.

He used facial analysis to establish that a British Buddhist living in Australia is Lord Lucan, and told The Telegraph that he was “very confident” the images showed the same person.

Unless “it is somebody who looks very, very, very like him or an identical twin,” he said.

But now facial recognition experts are disputing Professor Ugail’s claims:

It emerged that a rival study involving detailed facial mapping techniques had been conducted by Dr Shelina Jilani of Home Office-approved Acumé Forensic, based in Leeds, which concluded there were sufficient differences to “eliminate” any chance the British expat was Lord Lucan.

Professor Ugail is sticking to his word, discrediting the other analysis for being based on “a human undertaking facial measurements mapping” and arguing that “computer algorithms are far superior for face recognition”:

“They can look at and analyse a facial image far deeper than what a human sees to the naked eye,” he added.

“Recent experiments also show that computer algorithms outperform human-based recognition.”

He is adamant that his AI system is a matter of “science and mathematical fact”:

Professor Ugail’s computer algorithm analysed 4,000 dimensions – as opposed to the three dimensions seen by the human eye – of the images and compared them to four older pictures of Lord Lucan at various stages of his life.

“According to the computer algorithm, based on thousands of experiments, these pictures belong to the same individual or someone who looks extremely like them -  like identical twins,” Professor Ugail said.

An inquest jury concluded in 1975 that Lord Lucan was responsible for the killing of Sandra.

Berriman suspects that Lucan is living in a suburb of Brisbane in a Buddhist commune where two young Englishmen act as his carers.

Scotland Yard apparently investigated whether this man was Lord Lucan in 2020 and “conclusively eliminated” him in April last year after the Australian Federal Police made “extensive inquiries” on their behalf.

But Professor Ugail is sure his computer algorithm is on the money and remains adamant that Lord Lucan is not missing after all.

[source:telegraph]