The signatures are barely legible, the mark of a man slowly sinking under enormous gambling debts.
He made them out before he went on the run after murdering his childrens nanny.
Lucan, ironically dubbed Lucky by friends because he barely ever won, signed the 11 cheques drawn on his account with Queens bankers Coutts & Co. All were rejected for lack of funds.
Five were written during an astonishing 48 hours when Lucky hit a losing streak that cost him about £200,000 in todays money.
The last is dated September 1, 1974, two months before Londons worst professional gambler became one of historys most notorious murderers.
Former merchant banker Lucan, then 39, vanished after he battered Sandra Rivett, 29, to death in the basement of the famil…
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