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Sam Russell

Man 'befriended couple before poisoning them with opioid painkiller fentanyl and rewriting their will’

A man poisoned a married couple with the opioid painkiller fentanyl and rewrote their will, a murder trial has heard.

Tracy Ayling KC, prosecuting, said Luke D’Wit, 34, worked for and had befriended Stephen and Carol Baxter of Mersea Island, Essex, saying in a statement to police that he was “like an adopted son to both of them”.

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