One of Britain's richest men was stabbed to death in a 'ferocious and sustained' attack by his partner's son who was 'consumed with hatred and contemplated murder morning, day and night', a court heard today.
Thomas Schreiber repeatedly knifed his 'toxic and gold digging' mother Anne Schreiber and hotel tycoon Sir Richard Sutton after fantasising for months about their murders, prosecutors say.
A jury today heard he launched the vicious attack at Sir Richard's £2million country mansion after 'many years of feeling isolated and unfairly treated by all his family' and becoming 'consumed with hatred' for the couple.
In a chilling text about a month before the killings, the 35-year-old told a friend 'I contemplate murdering them all morning, day and night'.
Using a kitchen knife he stabbed Sir Richard to death and used another blade to inflict more than ten stab wounds on his mother before leaving her dying on the kitchen floor.
After he fled in a Range Rover, police descended on the estate in the hamlet of Higher Langham, near Gillingham, Dorset, to find the horrific scene.
Thomas Schreiber is accused of seriously injuring his mother Anne Schreiber, 65, (left) and killing her partner Sir Richard Sutton (right), who suffered fatal stab wounds in April this year
Jurors were today told it was only the actions of police and medics that saved 65-year-old Mrs Shreiber's life by restarting her heart.
She was airlifted to Southmead Hospital in Bristol where it was discovered she had suffered 'severe and life changing injuries'.
Sir Richard's body was found on the landing, after he was initially attacked downstairs and limped upstairs where Schreiber is said to have stabbed him a further five times in the chest.
Schreiber was captured by police a few hours later after a high speed chase and a 'hard stop' in London.
Winchester Crown Court today heard he had told a friend he 'couldn't stand and didn't have a good word to say about' Sir Richard, who last year was listed at number 435 in the Sunday Times Rich List, with an estimated family fortune of £301 million.
Sir Richard, 83, owned a sprawling property empire and more than 7,000 acres of land, including the five-star Sheraton Grand on London's Park Lane and the Athenaeum hotel in Mayfair.
The jury was told Sir Richard, (above) who was one of Britain's richest men, was stabbed multiple times during an attack by his step son Thomas Schreiber at their home in Gillingham
Prosecutor Adam Feest QC said armed police smashed through the glass door of the conservatory of their mansion, called Moorhill, on April 7 following numerous 999 calls.
He said: 'Police had gone there in response to 999 calls from a number of people telling them that Thomas Schreiber was saying that he had killed his mother and Sir Richard, and was going to take his own life.
'They discovered that Moorhill had been the setting of a ferocious and sustained attack by the defendant upon his two victims.
'It was an attack that left Anne Schreiber barely conscious and dying on the floor of the kitchen.
'With slashes across her face and stab wounds to her front, it was the multiple stab wounds to her back - numbering into double figures - that were the main source
