Sister of nanny murdered by fugitive peer Lord Lucan says release of Amazon ... trends now

The sister of a nanny bludgeoned to death by an aristocrat who mistook her for his estranged wife has said an upcoming documentary is the 'first time in 50 years' someone has cared about her.

One of Britain's most notorious murderers, Lord Richard Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, vanished after he murdered his family's nanny in Belgravia, London, in 1974.

Lord Lucan was looking for his estranged wife Veronica after a bitter argument, and entered a dark basement and hit her with a lead pipe before stuffing her into a mail-sack.

But the woman he killed was actually the nanny, 29-year-old Sandra Rivett. His countess wife was also attacked but managed to escape, running screaming for help to a nearby pub covered in blood.

Lord Lucan, then 39, then drove 42 miles to a friend's house in a sleepy Sussex village where he told them his wife had been attacked by a stranger and he needed to lie low because his wife had previously accused him of hiring a hitman.

Three days later, his blood-stained borrowed car was found abandoned with lead piping in the boot at the cross-Channel port of Newhaven. He has not been seen since.

In 1975, an injury jury concluded Lord Lucan has murdered the nanny. This was the last time a coroner held the power to return a verdict of murder, manslaughter or infanticide and to state who they believed to have committed the offence.

And in 1999, Lord Lucan was officially declared dead to allow his will to be settled.

Now, Sandra's sister Charmaine has told The Mirror: 'This is the first time in nearly 50 years that anyone else has cared about Sandra.' 

Speaking ahead of a documentary called The Murder of Sandra Rivett being released, the sister said the film was 'recognising her as a person, not just a victim' and it has given 'me my sister back'.

Charmaine said that losing her older sister has 'haunted' her for years and paid tribute, calling her 'kind, caring and supportive'. 

She spoke of how Sanda 'loved her job and the Lucan children' - the private school-educated Frances, George and Camilla, then aged 10, seven, and four.

In 1974, Sandra signed up with a domestic agency and got a job in the Lucan household. But 10 weeks later, she was dead.

She had walked into the middle of a toxic battle between Lord and Lady Lucan.

Their relationship had deteriorated due to his gambling addictions and her mental health struggles. 

They had separated in 1973, but Lord Lucan wanted custody of heir children and wanted to prove the countess was an unfit mother.

During this turmoil, Lady Lucan became friends with Sanda and they grew close, with a historian claiming there was a 'kinship' between the two women.

But tragically, Sandra died shortly after putting the children to bed and going to make her friend and boss a cup of tea. 

Over the years there has been widespread speculation as to the whereabouts of the wealthy Etonian which overshadowed the woman he killed.

Wild theories from claims he shot himself and was fed to a tiger to claims he is living in Goa where he was known as 'Jungle Barry' are still circulating today.

Others have said he was sighted living in a Nazi colony in Paraguay, living in a car or working as a waiter in San Francisco.

In an ITV documentary in 2017, Lady Lucan said she believed he had jumped off a ferry shortly after the killing.

'I would say he got on the ferry and jumped off in the middle of the Channel in the way of the propellers so

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