2025 Review: Forensic Progress and Continuing the Search for Truth

As 2025 comes to an end, I would like to thank everyone who has followed, supported, and engaged with my ongoing investigation this year. Your continued interest and encouragement remain invaluable as the search for truth continues into 2026. Over the past year, I have been working with three senior forensic scientists, each bringing decades of experience in solving complex criminal cases. Together, they have undertaken a painstaking and professional review of my case, applying modern forensic techniques to historical evidence.

This work has included detailed analysis of photographic material and the exploration of whether viable DNA evidence may still be recoverable. The central objective is to determine whether the man living in Australia is indeed Lord Lucan, rather than Derek Crowther, as officially recorded. The work is necessarily careful and exacting but it marks a meaningful development in the investigation. Further updates will be shared as and when it is appropriate to do so.

Here are some pictures from 2025. Some details and identities have been redacted as the investigations are live and ongoing.

Thank you for your continued support.

Neil Berriman

Me with the ‘Dream Team’ forensic scientists

Working in the lab

Forensic photography of his fingerprints

Forensic analysis of his fingerprints

The real Derek Crowther

This picture was likely from New Zealand in the late 1970’s, when Derek was aged in his 40’s as a set designer, NOT a ballet dancer. One of the ladies in this picture is a famous ballet dancer and is a key witness to the real Derek Crowther.

Crowther’s travels

This is a spitting image of our man when he performed in FACADE at the Global Village Theatre, Toronto, between 1966 and 1971.