A MURDERER went home to watch a TV series before taking his mum out for an ice cream after poisoning his victims.
Luke D’Wit, who is expected to be sentenced today (Friday) for the murder of Stephen and Carol Baxter, had used fentanyl patches prescribed to his late grandfather to carry out the killings on Good Friday last year.
After leaving the Baxters’ address at 7.55pm evening, D’Wit double locked the front door and went home to watch the TV series Beyond Paradise.
When he was cross-examined during the trial, D’Wit told the court how he and his mum went out for ice cream on Saturday, April 8.
That evening, he went out to Frankie and Bennie’s with the Baxters’ daughter, Ellena, and her partner Marcus.
During that time, the Baxters would have been beyond saving, with a pathologist telling the court the couple would have died between 11am and 2pm on Saturday, April 8 from the fentanyl poisoning exacted by D’Wit the previous night.
When D'Wit was cross-examined, he told the court he did not go back to the Baxters’ address over the Easter weekend because they had wanted time to themselves.
Tracy Ayling KC, prosecuting, said: “At 8am [on April 8], you went to the gym?”
D’Wit replied: “I did.
“Ellena called me before and after the gym.
“Before, she asked me for £40, so I transferred her that.
“I think I went to breakfast with my mum in Colchester, and then I saw my friend Emma and we went to Running World in Colchester.
“I then went for ice cream with mum because it was a nice sunny day.
“We then went to Frankie and Benny’s in Colchester with Ellena and Marcus.”
When the Baxters were found dead on Easter Sunday, bodycam footage showed D’Wit told police exactly the same thing.
He said: "I was out with those two last night, I took them for dinner for Ellie’s birthday."
A murder investigation was not opened until July after toxicology results showed the Baxters had been poisoned by painkillers.
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