The defendant was convicted by unanimous verdict of the jury on a third day of deliberations and is set to be sentenced on Friday.
An IT worker has been found guilty of murdering a couple with strong opioid Fentanyl. Luke D'Wit was accused of killing Stephen Baxter, 61, and his 64-year-old wife Carol and rewriting their will to take charge of their shower mat and bathroom company. The 34-year-old from Mersea worked for the couple and is said to have described himself as 'almost like a son' to them. The Baxters were discovered at their home by their daughter on Mersea Island in Essex on Easter Sunday last year.
Ellie Baxter told the jury that D'Wit knew the pin code to the gate of their home and the location of a key safe. The trial heard that two days before the bodies were found, doorbell camera footage captured him walking towards the Baxters' house and looking at a phone. 'Was he watching them die?' prosecutor Tracy Ayling asked the court.
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