Luke D’Wit: How computer ‘nerd’ turned in to terrifying and calulated cold-blooded killer

One thing is certain — no one who knew Luke D’Wit had the slightest inkling that a man they described as “kind and gentle” and a “boring computer geek” was capable of one murder, let alone a double killing.

After all, the 34-year-old didn’t drink, barely socialised and spent much of his spare time at his home in West Mersea in Essex, England, playing computer simulation games that were a world away from the violent ones so often enjoyed by others his age.

Above all else, he appeared entirely disinterested in money and even spent some of his spare time volunteering for local clubs and charities.

Yet the chilling fact remains that on April 7, 2023, this same Luke D’Wit slipped a fatal dose of the powerful prescription opioid fentanyl into the drinks of Stephen and Carol Baxter, a kindly and wealthy couple who had befriended the oddball after he began doing IT work for their fitted shower mat firm.

And it is D’Wit who Det. Supt Rob Kirby, the head of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate which investigated the couple’s macabre deaths, this week described as both “cold and calculating” and “one of the most dangerous men I have come across”.

Murdrerer Luke D’Wit.
Camera IconMurdrerer Luke D’Wit. Credit: Unknown/Supplied

So dangerous, indeed, that had he not been convicted, Det Supt Kirby believes he was ripe to offend again.

“I have absolutely no doubt,” he added. “That had he not been caught he would have gone on to commit further murders.”

How on Earth, then, did this apparently mild-mannered website builder morph into a killer so cold-hearted that, as the jury heard, he even positioned a mobile phone at the Baxters’ home to stream live footage from their conservatory to a home security app on one of his own phones?

This allowed him to watch the oblivious couple dying in front of his eyes from the fatal dose of fentanyl he had administered, before sneaking back into the house to remove any incriminating evidence such as contaminated glasses.

He then wrote a codicil to the Baxters’ wills that would make him a director of their company Cazsplash Ltd, ensuring he would be a beneficiary of their extensive savings.

Yet as it can be revealed, some of those who know him believe his motivation may have been even more sinister, rooted in a desire to “get one over” on those who had written him off and commit the “perfect crime”.

“He thought he was cleverer than most people and was sometimes frustrated that friends had moved on to better things,” one of them told the Mail.

Stephen and Carol Baxter were posioned.
Camera IconStephen and Carol Baxter were posioned. Credit: Unknown/Supplied

“It was like he resented that his (antisocial) personality had got in the way.”

Certainly, D’Wit had failed to make much of his life by the time his path crossed with that of the Baxters.

He grew up as an only child with his dustman father Vernon and mother Jan in a cottage in Churchfields, West Mersea, and attended Thomas Lord Audley School in nearby Colchester before studying for a computer technology degree at the University of Essex.

After university, while friends escaped the close-knit community of Mersea Island in Essex for more exciting lives elsewhere, D’Wit drifted between jobs, working for a garden furniture company in Clacton and later a furniture company in Colchester before, aged 22, setting up a website design company called Stand Out Studios Ltd with a friend.

It was dissolved 17 months later. “They designed a logo and that was it. I don’t think they even found any clients,” one friend who knew D’Wit at the time told the Mail.

“Luke thought that having his own website development firm was a status symbol … but it was never a proper company.”

His domestic life was barely more dynamic, with one friend revealing that as his contemporaries got into serious relationships and bought their own houses, the quietly spoken D’Wit remained at the family home with his mother — even, astonishingly, sharing a bedroom with her, with blue sheets for his bed and pink for hers.

“He was definitely a bit of a mummy’s boy and a home boy,” D’Wit’s former best friend, who did not want to be named, confided this week.

“He did not seem to have any ambition and he never really progressed with his life.”

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