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Fentanyl Killer Who Completely Brainwashed and Killed Family Jailed For Life

An IT worker who befriended a married couple before giving them a fatal overdose of fentanyl has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 37 years.

BBC 22 MAR 2024





A “cruel and manipulative” IT worker “hacked into the lives” of a married couple and spent 18 months poisoning the wife with drugged health drinks. Fentanyl killer who ‘hacked into the lives’ of married couple poisoned victim for 18 months


Luke D’Wit was sentenced to life in prison on Friday and told he must serve a minimum of 37 years behind bars for the deaths of Carol Baxter, 64, and husband Stephen, 61.


D’Wit, described as a “nerdy and weird” loner, spent almost a decade ingratiating himself with the couple and their family before “scheming and planning their demise”.

At Chelmsford Crown Court, the Baxters’ children, Harry and Ellie, said they had been “completely brainwashed” by the 34-year-old, whom they viewed as a brother.

The couple were discovered slumped in their armchairs in the conservatory of their detached home in the seaside village of West Mersea, Essex, by their daughter on April 9 last year.

In the months before giving the couple a fatal dose of fentanyl, D’Wit had created multiple fake identities of doctors to trick Carol into taking medication that left her with dementia-like symptoms.

The court heard he would film her and giggle at the footage, after making her drink “health drinks” that would supposedly help with her thyroid condition, but were laced with drugs.

Ellie, 22, read a victim impact statement at Chelmsford Crown Court in which she laid bare the horror of finding her parents’ bodies.

Mr Justice Lavender said that while D’Wit had hoped to gain financially from the couple’s deaths, the primary motivation may have been a “desire to control others” as he had done with Mrs Baxter in the months before he murdered her.

“Deciding whether another person lives or dies is the ultimate form of control,” he added.

The judge told D’Wit, who was in a wheelchair and remained emotionless as he was sentenced, that he had been viewed as a member of the Baxter family.

He added: “You spent a great deal of your time in their home and, in particular, you accompanied Carol Baxter on walks and visits to the gym and you regularly mixed what were supposed to be health drinks for her.

“I am sure that it was by means of one such drink, which you had recommended to Carol and Stephen Baxter in the guise of… one of many false identities created by you, that you administered the drugs to Carol and Stephen Baxter without their knowledge.”








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