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Man ‘poisoned couple with opioid painkiller fentanyl and rewrote their will’

Source: PA Media

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”.

She told that Mr Baxter, 61, and his 64-year-old wife ran a company called Cazsplash, with Mrs Baxter having designed a type of bathmat

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