BODYCAM footage of a murder suspect who was questioned by police minutes after a married couple were found dead has been released.

Carol and Stephen Baxter were found dead on Easter Sunday last year when their daughter discovered them in their West Mersea home.

Luke D’Wit, who is now standing trial accused of murdering the Baxters, attended the scene that day and was briefly questioned by police.

The footage released shows D’Wit, who has been appearing in court in a wheelchair, telling the police officer he and Ellie Baxter had driven past Carol and Stephen Baxter’s house on Saturday night to check if they were OK.

Miss Baxter, meanwhile, is heard on the phone to her aunty.

In full: What D’Wit tells police after Carol and Stephen Baxter were found dead

Officer: “And you say you last saw them on Friday?”

D’Wit: “I got home just before 8pm, so that’s when I left.

“Me and Steve were just talking about work and just the business because Carol can’t work anymore – the past year, she’s not been able to do anything, so we were just having a chat but he didn’t really feel up to it.

"He just, sort of asked me to go.

"I was going to come back tomorrow and go to the gym and… I used to check on them, I’d always pop in.

"Because they wanted this weekend, Easter weekend…

"I was out with those two last night, I took them for dinner for Ellie’s birthday.

"Steve’s mum, Irene, who lives in London, was worried that she wasn’t answering her calls either, which again isn’t unusual with… they want time away.

"Because we were concerned, so me Ellie and Marcus drove past here at 6.30pm, 7pm last night? Just to make, you know [indecipherable] worried.

"But because we saw the blinds are down and the light was on, we thought 'they’re doing what they want, they’ve got their weekend, lights are on, they’re just ignoring us, all cool'.

"So then Ellie called me this morning.

"And, I was always… I think we were both a bit uneasy.

"Ellie popped by first, saw the blinds were still down, immediately panicked.

"I was meeting them anyway but Marcus called me and [indecipherable] they’re in their chairs, they’re not moving, they’re not replying, so I literally ran from home to here.

"Just as I got here, they’d just smashed the back window to get in."

Officer: “Have you seen them today, did you go in yourself?”

“I have been in there, yeah, and I went upstairs and the paramedic asked me to get all of Carol’s medication.

"She’s got a lot of… because sometimes she will… have various things over the years with the various operations she’s had.

"So I went upstairs and got anything that I looked, thought looked like a tablet and put it in a brown box for the paramedic.

"I don’t know if any of it’s valid, but I know Carol… Unfortunately with Carol, you don’t know, what… Because quite often she might take… she has [indecipherable] levothyroxine.

"But sometimes she forgets so she could take it six or seven… I know that [indecipherable]. She doesn’t know, or…"