I've seen this movie, it doesn't bode well for Lord Shaftesbury:
British detectives are to fly to the south of France to help track down an English aristocrat who mysteriously disappeared on the French Riviera over three weeks ago, police said on Tuesday. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 10th earl of Shaftesbury, aged 66, has been missing since the afternoon of November 6 when he was seen checking out of the Noga Hilton hotel in the seaside resort of Cannes.
Sussex Police said that officers would be travelling to Nice sometime around December 13 for meetings with their French counterparts. Lord Shaftesbury divided his time between Britain and the French Riviera where he was known to frequent titty hostess bars and houses of ill repute other night spots. On the day before he vanished he visited his estranged third wife, a gold digger nightclub hostess, in a flat in Cannes.
| Wealthy English lords, girly bars on the Riviera and a slinky estranged wife tucked away in Cannes. It's got everything! |
According to newspaper reports, police have been looking into a possible link with a criminal inquiry launched earlier this year when Lord Shaftesbury claimed to have been assaulted and robbed by a gang.
| Ah, a mysterious criminal element! |
| Set upon by somebody's henchmen, was he? |
| See, it's not just Arab countries that have Deep Laid Plots™ ... |
The case has generated much interest in Britain, where his family have told newspapers that they are extremely worried about his fate. He had been expected to return to Britain on November 10.
| Anyone checked his last will and testament to see who gets the booty? |
Lord Shaftesbury, who was educated a Eton and Oxford and speaks fluent French, inherited his title from his grandfather when he was 22 years old, along with the family seat at Wimborne, southwest England, and its 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) estate.
| Send for Sherlock Holmes! |
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