A British IT worker, Luke D’Wit, 34, has been sentenced to a minimum of 37 years in prison for the murder of Stephen and Carol Baxter, aged 61 and 64, at their home in West Mersea, east of London. The sentencing came after D’Wit was found guilty of poisoning the couple with fentanyl and monitoring their deaths using his cellphone.
During the trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, it was revealed that D’Wit had created a fake will on his phone to make himself a director of the couple's shower mat company, following their deaths. He had also used various personas to manipulate the Baxters, including pretending to be a doctor from Florida and a member of a fake support group for a medical condition Carol Baxter suffered from.
