2024-03-27 07:43:42
London: The court has sentenced a British IT worker to life imprisonment. This man befriended an elderly couple and poisoned them with fentanyl. Not only this, this person also monitored his death through an app in his cellphone. Luke DeWitt, 34, was sentenced Friday, two days after he was found guilty of murdering elderly couple Stephen and Carol Baxter. According to the court order, Luke will have to remain in jail without parole for at least 37 years.
Jurors during a six-week trial at Chelmsford Crown Court heard that DeWitt had made a fake will on his phone to make her a director of his shower mat company the day after he killed her. He even monitored them from a distance as they died from his deadly mixture. The court also held that DeWitt had introduced himself in various ways since 2021 to manipulate the deceased couple. He pretended to be a doctor from Florida and a member of a fake support group for Hashimoto’s thyroid disease, which Carol Baxter suffered from.
The court found the act cruel
Justice Nicholas Lavender sentenced DeWitt to life in prison, describing DeWitt’s actions as “cruel and senseless” in his decision. DeWitt also will not be eligible for parole for at least 37 years. He said he believed DeWitt had obtained the fentanyl that killed the couple from a patch that was originally prescribed for his father, who died in 2021.
He continued to suffer, Sajid remained sitting there. The third brother narrated the horrifying reality.
The judge said DeWitt had spiked the drink he gave the couple on April 7. They drank because they were confident that DeWitt would prepare a health drink for them. When the Baxters were unconscious, you took the terrifying step of using an application on two mobile telephones to monitor them while they left the house for a period of time. The couple were found dead by their daughter two days after the poisoning. The daughter of the deceased couple told the court that DeWitt came into our lives by lying for more than a decade. He followed a plan and killed my parents.