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Fentanyl murderer would have killed again had he not been caught – detective

Source: PA Media

An IT worker who murdered a married couple by poisoning them with fentanyl would have gone on to kill again if he had not been caught by police, a detective said.

Luke D’Wit, 34, who befriended and worked for Stephen and Carol Baxter, created a series of fake online personas to manipulate them before he killed them.

These included a doctor from Florida and members of a fake support group for the thyroid condition Hashimoto’s, which Mrs Baxter suffered from.

He later changed their will to make him a director of

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