Overview
- The 68-year-old lay in wait for more than five hours at Crofton Cemetery on 24 July 2023, the day that would have been their son Christopher’s 36th birthday.
- He stabbed Ann Blackwood with a kitchen knife that broke on the first blow, then inflicted 19 neck and shoulder wounds with the scissors she brought to trim flowers.
- Suter called 999 from the scene and confessed, later telling police he blamed his ex-wife for their son’s death.
- Prosecutors declined a manslaughter plea, and he admitted murder on the first day of his trial in May 2024 at Portsmouth Crown Court.
- The court heard a coroner had ruled Christopher’s 2003 death accidental, as the judge condemned the killing as an act of “wickedness.”