A British aristocrat who has been missing for nearly a half-century may have been identified by the same facial recognition software that identified the suspected killers of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
A world-renowned face recognition expert believes his acclaimed software has identified the long-lost Lord Lucan as an 87-year-old man living as a pensioner in Brisbane, Australia, he told the Telegraph.
“According to the computer algorithm, based on thousands of experiments, these pictures belong to the same individual or someone who looks extremely like them, like identical twins,” professor Hassan Ugail told the outlet. “This is science and mathematical fact. You can’t cheat the algorithm.”
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Ugail’s algorithm, which has been meticulously developed over 15 years, has “never been wrong,” the researcher claimed.
“By using millions of images of faces as data, we have trained a very powerful computer algorithm to recognize and identify a face, even within a database of millions of faces and even if the input face is only a partial blurry image of a face,” he said. “Unlike humans, the computer algorithm looks at a face very deeply — from the color, texture, the different shapes, the ratios, and proportions. It’s a very, very detailed way of analyzing an image which goes far deeper than what the human eye can see.”
“In my experience, over the thousands of experiments we have done over many years, involving millions and millions of faces, the face recognition algorithm would not report such close resemblance unless it is from the same individual or someone who looks extremely like them, such as their identical twin,” he said of the Lucan case.
On Nov. 7, 1974, the nanny of Lucan’s children, 29-year-old Sandra Rivett, was bludgeoned to death with a lead pipe in the dark basement of one of his residences, Business Insider reported. When his wife, Veronica Lucan, went into the basement to investigate, she was attacked as well. However, she was able to escape, bloodied, after she grabbed his testicles. She ran into a nearby pub and identified him as her attacker and the killer of their nanny, and she alleged he had intended to kill her but had misidentified the nanny in the dark basement.
When an arrest warrant was issued for Lucan the following day, the seventh Earl of Lucan disappeared without a trace, captivating the public’s imagination for decades to come. There were subsequently dozens of claimed sightings of the aristocrat, though courts declared him dead in 2016, the BBC reported.
Lucan was widely known as an eccentric aristocrat, notable for his expensive taste in cars and drinks. He bore such a close resemblance to one of the United Kingdom’s greatest icons, James Bond, that Albert Broccoli considered him for the role, though Lucan turned it down, according to We Are the Mighty.
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Neil Berriman, son of the murdered Sandra Rivett, said he fully believes Ugail’s findings and called for justice for his mother.
“I’ve spent nine years trying to prove this man is Lucan. Now, with this new scientific information, the police must act,” he told the Mirror.
