A man has been jailed for life with a minimum of 27 years for murdering his ex-wife at their son’s grave on their late child’s birthday.

Martin Suter, 68, was rebuked by the judge and his former brother-in-law for “pitilessly extinguishing” the life of Ann Blackwood, 71.

Suter, a Green party member and council election candidate, laid in wait for Blackwood for five hours at a graveyard in Stubbington, Hampshire, in 2023 and stabbed her 19 times.

He stabbed her with his 12-inch kitchen knife and then with a pair of scissors she had brought with her to trim memorial flowers, the court heard.

Sentencing Suter, Judge Michael Bowes KC told him he had committed an act of wickedness and a dreadful crime.

After being jailed for life and told he would serve a minimum of 27 years and 230 days,

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