Mr Berrimen recently asked Professor Ugail to analyze three photographs of the 87-year-old man he was convinced was the fugitive peer.
Professor Ugail’s computer algorithm analyzed 4,000 dimensions – as opposed to the three dimensions seen by the human eye – of the images and compared them to four earlier images of Lord Lucan at various stages of his life.
“According to the computer’s algorithm, based on thousands of experiments, these images belong to the same person or someone who looks extremely similar to them – like identical twins,” Professor Ugail said.
“This is a scientific and mathematical fact. You can’t cheat the algorithm.”
Scotland Yard ‘permanently eliminated’ Australian
Scotland Yard began investigating whether the man in Australia was Lord Lucan in 2020, but “definitely eliminated” him in April last year, following “extensive inquiries” carried out on their behalf by the Australian Federal Police. Professor Ugail, however, has made global headlines for his work identifying some of the world’s most wanted men. In 2018, he helped investigative website Bellingcat expose the two Russian agents responsible for poisoning ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the city of Salisbury. It has also identified three suspects linked to the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and helped unmask an alleged Nazi war criminal last year. Professor Ugail claimed that his computer algorithm “never made a mistake”. He said he was particularly confident in Lord Lucan’s analysis as he had compared every photograph of the man in Australia with every other photograph individually. All of the comparisons yielded a likelihood score of more than 75 percent — in some cases it exceeded 80 percent — which he said confirms it’s either the same person or a twin. “It was quite a thorough job,” he told the Telegraph The man Berryman suspects is Lord Lucan lived in a Brisbane suburb in a Buddhist community where two young Englishmen act as his caretakers, according to the Mirror. The man is said to have spent some time in Nepal before settling in Australia in the 1980s.
