Moment when a man who was adopted as a baby discovers the identity and horrific past of his birth mother: crime

A man who was adopted as a baby recalled the time he discovered his birth mother’s true identity and was shocked.

Neil Berriman, from Petersfield, Hampshire, appeared in a new one BBC documentary about the story behind his real family.

The British appears in the first episode, which airs Wednesday (November 6) at 9 p.m.

Remembering his adopted child mother Audrey had given him a brown envelope and told him to open it when he was older because it contained “the answers to some questions.” He was disinterested until she insisted.

On her deathbed, he said the answers were there “when he needed them.”

It took him three years after she died cancerbut when he looked inside the envelope he found a document about his adoption and a newspaper article from 1994 describing that the woman he thought was his sister was actually his mother, report the Daily Post.

But 17 years ago, Neil said he only knew about the Lucan affair, but it turned out he was directly connected to it, namely that his mother was actually Sandra Rivett.

Sandra was just 29 when she was found dead in a mailbag in the basement of Lord Lucan’s home in Belgravia. London.

He was the son of Lord Lucan’s murdered nanny, and in the new documentary he broke down in tears as he recalled the moment he discovered the identity of his birth mother.

Neil first discovered on the adoption order that his real name was Gary Roger Hensby.

After her death, Lucan went on the run and was last seen at the home of Ian Maxwell-Scott, in Uckfield, Sussex, where he told his friend’s wife that he had experienced a ‘traumatic night of incredible coincidence’ and that he would go home. ‘lie doggo for a while’.

Lord Lucan has been presumed dead since 2015 as he was never brought to justice before Sandra’s murderalthough an inquest found him guilty of murder forty years earlier.

Neil went on to explain: “So Stephen – the boy from the newspaper article – must be my brother. But (the sitter) can’t be associated with me because her name is Sandra Rivett.

“I read the article one last time and at the bottom (bottom) I then realized that her name was actually Sandra Eleanor Hensby.”

Fighting back tears, he said: “I am the son of Sandra Eleanor Hensby – also known as the nanny who was murdered by Lord Lucan in 1974.

‘A single letter is what I expected. This just doesn’t happen, right?

“The chances of you being adopted and discovering that your mother is involved in one of the biggest murder mysteries of all time. It’s unbelievable,” he admitted.

After giving Stephen up for adoption to her parents shortly after his birth, Neil was born two years later in 1966, and the adoption agency revealed that Sandra “didn’t feel she could possibly properly raise this baby herself.”

She had the child with a married man who employed her as a housekeeper, but later married Roger Rivett the following year.

Sandra worked for Lord Lucan and his wife for ten weeks before she was murdered, but after losing the custody battle over his children when the couple separated in 1973, things took a dramatic turn.

On November 7 that year, while Lady Lucan was watching TV, she was hit on the head several times and fell to the floor, with the attacker telling her to ‘shut up’.

She recognized him as Lord Lucan and bit his fingers, “grabbing his genitals,” according to reports.

When she asked where Sandra was, he first said she had gone outside, before revealing: ‘I killed her, she came down first, if it had been you you would have gotten it.’

Lady Lucan then convinced her husband to help her clean up her injuries, but when he went to the toilet she ran to a local pub and the report read: ‘She fell to the floor and screamed: ‘He’s killed the nanny and he is sitting behind the children’ The police and an ambulance were called.”

“The first officers on the scene spoke to Lady Lucan. She told them the nanny had been murdered and gave them her address. Lady Lucan was taken to St George’s Hospital, SW1,” it continued.

Lord Lucan had fled to Sussex and was never found despite a police investigation.