"divert suspicion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to redirect or shift attention away from something or someone that may be seen as suspicious. Example: The politician tried to divert suspicion from herself by pointing fingers at her opponents for the recent scandal.
McCluskie used all means possible to divert suspicion away from himself, giving false hope to family and friends.
These online rumours were a convenient way for Assange to divert suspicion from the actual allegations, the women's lawyer said.
Jackson further says that Willingham's burns were so superficial that they seemed to have been "self-inflicted in an attempt to divert suspicion from himself".
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Jackson further says that Willingham's burns were so superficial that they seemed to have been "self-inflicted in an attempt to divert suspicion from himself".
He goes to the McPhillip home intending to divert suspicion from himself by attending the wake, and there he begins the strange behavior which finally betrays him to the organization.
So she was living a triple existence as teacher, mother and resister; as she wrote in her memoirs, being the mother of a baby was an excellent cover to divert suspicion from the Germans, and at one meeting between her husband and General de Gaulle's envoy, Jean Moulin, in a Lyon public garden, her presence with her baby boy proved particularly useful.
The German-Jewish actor and cabaret performer Kurt Gerron was recruited by the Nazis to create a propaganda documentary about Theresienstadt, the Germans' "show camp" in Czechoslovakia, to divert suspicions by the Red Cross about the true nature and purpose of it and other camps.
Rejection was more than she could cope with, and she tried to remove Beard's inconvenient wife with a poisoned chocolate, diverting suspicion by distributing other contaminated treats among the unsuspecting population of Brighton.
Perhaps even raising the topic of conspiracy theories is a cunning means of diverting suspicion away from this worrying trend.
The bank's assassin diverts suspicion to a local assassin with political connections, who is promptly killed by a corrupt policeman.
Instead, Mr. Kuchma's political critics dismissed Mr. Smirnov's statement as an almost laughably clumsy attempt to divert public suspicion away from the president.
