Luke D'Wit created a gallery of fake personas and a false will to help him execute his 'cruel and senseless' plan.
He portrayed himself as an "upstanding, kind member of the community", but in reality, he was a cold, calculating killer - described by police as one of the "most dangerous men" they had ever come across.
So when he discovered that Mrs Baxter was suffering from the thyroid condition, Hashimoto's disease, he saw an opportunity - creating more than 20 false personas to manipulate her, using 80 electronic devices.D'Wit sent a series of emails to the Baxters purporting to be Dr Bowden, encouraging them to drink boiling water, lemon and aspirin tablets to improve their liver health - a way of creating a “concoction could put something into to kill them off”, according to prosecutors.
D'Wit deceived Mrs Baxter into believing that one of her fellow Hashimoto's sufferers had a sister called Jenny - a theatre producer who could help the Baxters' daughter Ellie with her career as a vocalist. Unbeknown to her, they were actually making things worse - allowing D'Wit to ply her with a cocktail of drugs that were masked by the flavours of lemon and turmeric.fentanyl had been crushed into a powderDescribing the smoothies in court, Mrs Baxter's daughter Ellie said that they "tasted gross" but believed her mother "just got a bit desperate”.
He also referred to himself as their "dear friend Luke D'Wit" who would become "director and person with significant control".During searches, police found the will – which was not the long-held document held by the Baxter's solicitors – as well as used fentanyl patches. D'Wit thrived on having the power to decide whether "another person lives or dies", Mr Justice Nicholas Lavender concluded, before adding that it was this that gave him the "ultimate form of control".
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