My mum & dad took him under their wing ..then he killed them

Family fury as fentanyl poisoner gets life for murdering couple & altering their will

-  MARTIN FRICKER

THE daughter of a couple murdered with fentanyl by an IT worker told how he had "hacked his way into our lives" a decade before killing them.

Ellie Baxter spoke of the family's horrific loss as Luke D'Wit, 34, was jailed for life for at least 37 years for killing Stephen Baxter, 61, and his 64-year-old wife Carol, before creating a fake will.

In her victim impact statement, daughter Ellie, 22, said: "My parents and I were manipulated by someone we had looked after for so many years.

"Mum and Dad took him under their wing... but he schemed and thoroughly planned my parents' demise." In 2014, D'Wit befriended the Baxters, who gave him a job at their shower mat firm and treated him "almost like a son".

But he began secretly drugging Carol as part of an extraordinary long-term case of manipulation lasting two years.

D'Wit set up a string of fake personas to trick the Baxters in a bid to take over their successful company.