Susan Maxwell Scott (1936-2004): friend of Lord Lucan
Michael Rhodes
September, 2004. She was 67.
On the night of the murder of his children's nany in 1974, the Earl of
Lucan arrived at the Sussex home of his friends Ian and Susie Maxwell
Scott. Ian was away, but his wife admitted Lord Lucan and was surprised
to see him in disheveled daytime clothing. His flannels looked as
though they had been stained and something sponged off.
Lucan told Susie Maxwell Scott that he had been walking past his home
in Lower Belgrave Street house, and peeped in through the basement
window. He had seen someone struggling with the Countess of Lucan in
the basement kitchen. He let himself in through the front door and ran
towards the stairs. He slipped and fell in a pool of blood, and the man
had run off. He had calmed Lady Lucan down and taken her upstairs to
try and clean her up, but while he was in the bathroom she had run out
of the house shouting 'Murder!' He had panicked, realizing things
looked very bad for him, and decided to get out.
At 12.15 am he rang his mother from the Maxwell Scott abode to check
that she had the Lucan children.
Lucan then wrote two letters, both addressed to his friend Bill Shand
Kydd at his home in Bayswater. Susie tried to persuade Lucan to remain
so they could go to the local police the next morning, but he said he
had to 'get back'. He drove away. There has been no validated sighting
of him since.
Mrs Maxwell Scott was born Susan Mary Clark, 6 November, 1936, the
second daughter of Sir Andrew Edmund James Clark, 3rd Baronet, MBE, by
his wife, Adeline Francis Harriet Derviche-Jones.
She married in February, 1958, Ian Maxwell Scott, younger son of
Rear-Admiral Malcolm Raphael Joseph Scott, DSO, and had issue, three
sons, Malcolm, Simon and Andrew, and three daughters, Lucy, Sarah and
Catherine.
Her husband was a gambling chum of Lord Lucan and a former director of
the Clermont Club, Mayfair.
....Michael Rhodes
cr
"Michael Rhodes" <migx73all...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1096502677.1...@h37g2000oda.googlegroups.com...
Can you provide more about the murder story? The article says the nanny was
murdered, but also says Lord Lucan saw someone struggling with his wife.
Does his wife corroborate his story?
Colleen
Texas