THE SON of the nanny killed by Lord Lucan has made the extraordinary claim he has found the missing peer in Australia.

Neil Berriman’s mum Sandra Rivett was murdered by Richard John Bingham in November 1974.

Neil now claims the missing lord, who was last seen in Sussex after the murder, is currently living as a Buddhist down under.

Mr Berriman, 52, says the man he believes to be the vanished peer is now seriously ill and in his mid-80s.

“I believe I have tracked down the man, Lord Lucan, who murdered my mother,” Mr Berriman told Scotland Yard’s Cold Case Unit.

It is claimed that Lucan was based in Perth when he arrived in Australia.

But is now living on a Buddhist retreat after moving there 11 years ago where, it is claimed, he may have met two “young Englishmen”.

The Daily Mirror claims that those Englishmen told the paper that an elderly man who looks like Lucan lives at the house.

They say the elderly man sits on the verandah, an open-air porch, listening to trains in the distance.

Lord Lucan would have turned 85 last month.

The seventh Earl of Lucan vanished after his family’s nanny was found bludgeoned to death – but the aristocrat’s eventual fate has always remained a mystery.

The body of Sandra, nanny to Lord Lucan’s three children, was found at the family home in London on November 7, 1974.

Lucan’s car was later found abandoned and soaked in blood in Newhaven, and an inquest jury declared the wealthy peer the killer a year later.

Even though he was officially declared dead by the High Court in 1999, there have been reported sightings of him in Australia, Ireland, South Africa and New Zealand, and even claims that he fled to India and lived life as a hippy called “Jungly Barry”.

Mr Berriman, who lives in Milland, West Sussex, told the Daily Mirror: “He has been alive all this time. Lying about who he is. Lying about it to his new friends.

“They are fully aware he is a mystery elderly Englishman and not who he is claiming to be.

“The people he lives with know he has a mystery past and what he tells them does not add up. They have had their suspicions for many years.

“Lucan is a deceitful conman and he is the man who murdered my mother.

“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind he escaped that night, with the help of friends who helped him get across the Channel and get a new passport, and incredibly he is still alive.

“From my own inquiries he’s had at least six different identities.”