"Couldn't he have been trying to divert suspicion from you?"

And here you were simply using me to divert suspicion from yourself.

He had to call attention to the stuff being taken so as to divert suspicion from himself.

To divert suspicion from themselves they would join his executioners.

To divert suspicion from himself, is it not so?

So far he had managed to divert suspicion from himself.

"They might just be trying to divert suspicion," he reasoned.

Or was he merely seeking to divert suspicion to others?

Of course, a further guard, which she asked for, to divert suspicion, was refused.

"This is a shabby attempt to divert suspicion from yourself."