From: augusto pinto I have a quiz question ... This Lucky Lucan or Lord Lucan as I recall that nutcase was actually, has some connection to Goa. ========================================================================
>From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan In September 2003, a book titled Dead Lucky: Lord Lucan, The Final Truth,[17] written by Duncan MacLaughlin, a former Scotland Yard detective, claimed to have solved the mystery of Lucan's disappearance.[13] The author claimed that Lucan fled to Goa, India, arriving there a year after Rivett's death. The book includes photos taken there in 1991 of a man who bears a resemblance to Lucan. The man, who died in 1996, was known in Goa as Barry Halpin (or, according to the book, "Jungle Barry"). However, these claims were almost immediately dismissed. BBC Radio 2 presenter Mike Harding said in a letter to The Guardian newspaper that he knew Barry Halpin from his days as a folk musician in Liverpool in the 1960s, and that he had gone to India "as it was more spiritual than St. Helens".[13] Given the extremely rapid debunking of the claims, The Sunday Telegraph, which serialised part of the book, was embarrassed in a manner reminiscent of The Sunday Times' publication of the bogus Hitler Diaries. The book was reprinted a year later in paperback entitled The Lucan Conspiracy[18] (to much less press interest) with one additional final chapter, and displaying the tagline: How the Establishment Conned the World into Believing Lord Lucan Was Barry Halpin. ====================================================================== It was amazing the publicity the book received in 2003 considering the author's lack of research. Within weeks of its release copies were sold at the reduced price of £1 (down from £16.99). I managed to bag a copy at the discounted price. Eddie Fernandes
