UK news Lady Lucan leaves fortune to housing charity Shelter Dowager Countess of Lucan, whose husband vanished more than 40 years ago, was found dead at home in September An inquest ruled Lady Lucan had killed herself after wrongly self-diagnosing with Parkinson’s. Photograph: ITV/Rex/ShutterstockLady Lucan, whose husband famously vanished more than 40 years ago, has left her fortune to a homeless charity after cutting her children out of her will, Shelter confirmed. A spokeswoman for the housing charity confirmed that the proceeds from Lucan’s estate had been donated to it. Lady Lucan was also severely beaten before escaping and raising the alarm at a nearby pub, the Plumbers Arms. Lord Lucan vanished after the murder, and his borrowed car was found abandoned and blood-spattered, with a section of bandaged lead piping in the boot, at the cross-Channel port of Newhaven, East Sussex.

Source: The Guardian January 14, 2018 18:44 UTC