Convicted murderer fights to clear name with new evidence after 36 years in prison due to 'false confession'
clear his name after serving 36 years in prison due to a “false confession”. Raymond Gilbert was convicted of the killing of John Suffield – a crime considered to be one of Merseyside’s notorious murders.Victim John Suffield, 23, was stabbed 19 times at Coral Racing shop where he worked on Lodge Lane in 1981.Raymond Gilbert, now 62, was arrested just three days after the killing on suspicion of murder and was later charged along with a co-accused John Kamara.