‘We were all just dolls in his dollhouse, victim to his manipulation’ Full statement from Harry Baxter, the victims’ son

Luke D’wit took what we all held most sacred and found a way to extract it for himself.

Our life will forever be punctured by the gravity of his actions. My eldest daughter will forever have lost the wealth of wisdom and experience my parents possessed.

My mum was the definition of the word “love”. I do not refer to April of 2023, I refer to the day Luke began his foul games torturing and drugging her. Unbeknownst to me, I had already lost my mother a long time ago.

I feel great sadness looking back on the videos of her when she was acting strangely and seeing him in the background giggling and smiling, knowing he’s the one inflicting this pain as we were all dolls in his dollhouse, victim to his manipulation.

My father, on the other hand, is the definition of intelligence. A critical thinker and problem solver and a person who people could absolutely rely on. Most of all, thorough to an astounding level of excellence. Revered within his industry, it was almost as if it seemed like he never broke a sweat.

He sacrificed his life for us to live on and when the days came where he could finally take time and retire and have time to teach me, a young man, naive and keen at the beginning of his adult life, it was stolen away by someone we all trusted the most.

Luke D’wit completely destroyed everything we held close to our hearts and every memory and future dream we could have shared. All I can do now is focus on my family by loving and protecting my partner and baby and future members of the family. We have the important role of not only mother and father but [must] also capture the memory of a now sadly lost grandmother and grandfather.