The Lucan affair
Sir: In his Notebook (27 October) Mr Chancellor uses the phrase 'Lady Lucan, whom . . . her husband wanted to murder'. Since Lord Lucan has not merely not been tried but has not even been interviewed since the event described, rather strangely, by Mr Chancellor as 'the Lucan murder', it would be interesting to know whence came his information as to Lord Lucan's desires.
I may be wronging Mr Chancellor but it would seem probable that he is going by the verdict of the inquest jury: 'murder by Lord Lucan'. The fact that that was not a conviction is no mere legal technicality, as anyone who was present at the inquest would realise: no evidence in Lord Lucan's favour was allowed in so far as anything harmful or even hurtful to Lady Lucan was ruled out. It is hardly surprising under these circumstances that the jury accepted her statement of the events.
Susan Maxwell Scott Nottage House, Porthcawl, Glamorgan
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