After Luke D'Wit killed Stephen and Carol Baxter he altered their will to make him a director of their company
An IT worker has been found guilty of the murder of a married couple who he poisoned with fentanyl before changing their will to make him a director of their shower mat company. Luke D'Wit, 34, who befriended and worked for Stephen and Carol Baxter, created a series of fake online personas to manipulate them before he killed them.
Another fake persona - a solicitor - was used in connection with the new will, prosecutors said. Tracy Ayling KC said in her prosecution closing speech that D'Wit murdered Mr and Mrs Baxter "calmly, coolly and in a way which had been entirely planned, maybe for some while". He said: "I have absolutely no doubt that had he not been caught, he would have gone on to commit further murders."
"The level of deviousness he went to was phenomenal," Mr Kirby said. Asked about a possible motive, Mr Kirby said it was "unclear what was going on in D'Wit's mind".
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