A failed painter who murdered his mother’s new man worth £300million was carrying on his dead father’s hate-filled vendetta against the aristocrat.
Thomas Schreiber attacked Sir Richard Sutton using a kitchen knife. The frenzied attack left Sutton in a pool in blood.
Anne Schreiber was also stabbed nine times by the 35-year old.
Following the April 7th murderous rampage, the “Moorhill” estate was in Lower Langham near Gillingham.
Schreiber lived with the couple at the mansion rent-free following his mother’s divorce from his alcoholic father David, a former public schoolboy and failed art dealer.
However, he was still angry at them for abandoning him father who had died in 2013.
Thomas Schreiber (pictured), stabbed Sir Richard Sutton with a kitchen knife, in an aggressive attack that left him in a pool blood.
Pictured before his murder, is a family photograph of Sir Richard Sutton with Anne Schreiber.
After his divorce from Anne, David Schreiber sent Thomas hate-filled letters describing his mother as a ‘gold digger’, the Times reported.
Rose McCarthy, one of Schreiber’s sisters, said: ‘I think when you hear that all the time and you receive those letters, I feel that toxicity was transferred on to my brother.’
By 2002, David Schreiber was unable to find employment due to his drinking and Anne Schreiber was providing for the family.
Following the Schreiber’s separation, Sir Richard offered to move the whole family to his estate, but Anne told David he could only join them if he quit alcohol.
McCarthy stated that a father could be extremely cruel. McCarthy said that he could have been suicidal. He had an antique pistol and would often get it out of the window and fire it out to provoke a response.
‘He would write suicidal notes and it happened on a continual basis, you couldn’t take him seriously.
“That is what we lived under when we had an alcoholic. . . It was having an extremely detrimental effect.
Thomas, his deceased father’s son, lived at the estate with Sir Richard for years. He became obsessed with Sir Richard’s quest to get rid the aspirant painter.
After his divorce from his father David, an alcoholic man who had been his mother for many years (pictured), Schreiber was able to live with his parents at the mansion without paying rent.
Following the April 7th murderous rampage, the “Moorhill” estate was in Lower Langham near Gillingham.
His daughter Caroline Sutton revealed the hotelier paid Schreiber £100,000 for a house deposit in a desperate attempt to get him to leave his home.
Following a row with his family over the inheritance from a chandelier, Sir Richard hit Schreiber in the back with a walking sticks on November 20, 2020.
Schreiber was isolated from his family by this row, and it marked a turning point in his relationships with his children.
He started obsessively searching the Internet for revenge articles and began to feel a compulsion towards Sir Richard and his mother.
Schreiber said to his friends that he planned revenge, and wanted to go out “with a bang”, just months before the murder.
James Reid, his best friend, wrote him a March 2021 letter: “Simply put. I contemplate killing them all day long.
It’s true, even though it’s not something I like to think about. It’s what I would like for them to experience.
He said, “I strategise daily about how to kill my mother and my co-workers… That’s how stupid my mind is.”
He also told his friend Fedor: ‘The short story is, my mum is a gold digging f***ing b****, she is a selfish, manipulative, toxic, gold digging b****.
Thomas Schreiber, pictured here with his mother, stabbed Sir Richard Sutton to death after he had been sponging off him for many years. It was a violent attack that left the hotelier with blood everywhere but his bedroom.
After his divorce from his father David, Schreiber lived in the same apartment as the couple.
‘We moved here 17 year ago. This huge house with our partner… She’s just there to cook for him, and take his money.
“He is a multi-millionaire. He hasn’t had to work one day. He inherited all his property and all the land in the entire world. He’s an absolute c***.
“He’s horribly racist and backwards. He’s also horribly outdated. He is vile, racist, backwards, old-fashioned and he doesn’t deserve my support.
Sir Richard was listed at number 435 in the Sunday Times Rich List last year with an estimated family fortune of £301 million.
The vast property empire he owned included over 16,000 acres of land and five-star Sheraton Grande on London’s Park Lane.
Sir Richard was blessed with two children, Fiamma and five grandchildren.
Danish-born physiotherapist Mrs Schreiber has her own practice in Milborne Port (Dorset) and has three grown-up kids, including Thomas.