
A computer technician poisoned a business couple to death after altering their wills while checking they would die with an app on his mobile phone, a British coroner was told yesterday.
34-year-old Luke D'Wit befriended 61-year-old Stephen and his wife Carol Baxter, 64, becoming 'like an adopted son' to them but subsequently poisoned them to death with the strong opium-based sedative fentanyl.
Chelmsford Crown Court, north London, was told that Mr and Mrs Baxter were found dead at their home in April by their daughter.
Prosecutor Tracy Ayling said D'Wit had installed "a security app on his cellphone" that he used to monitor the cameras.
The wealthy couple who founded carpet company Cazsplash were found to have high levels of fentanyl, the sedative believed to be tens of times stronger than morphine, in their bodies.
It was later revealed that D'Wit was actually the beneficiary of a 'very strange will' which turned out to have been created on his mobile phone on the day the bodies were found.
In the petition found, it was said that "our dear friend Luke D'Wit is the president" of the couple's business Cazsplash.
While the original will said their assets were left to the couple's four children, two from their marriage and two from Mrs Baxter's previous marriage.
D'Wit denies murder and possession of the hard drug used, as the trial continues.
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