Poison plot GP jailed for attempted murder

A GP who disguised himself and injected his mother's partner with a poison in a row over an inheritance was jailed for 31 years and five months.

Thomas Kwan, 53, was posing as a community nurse giving a coronavirus booster jab when he injected Patrick O'Hara, 71, with a toxin in Newcastle in January 2023.

Mr O'Hara contracted a life-threatening flesh-eating disease which caused horrific injuries.

Kwan disguised himself by wearing a long coat, flat cap, surgical gloves, a medical mask and tinted glasses as he carried out a 45-minute examination during a visit to the home of his mother.

He was obsessed with money and was angry that she had created a will in 2021 granting her partner of 21 years a share in her property.

Kwan had initially denied attempted murder but changed his plea after he heard the prosecution open the case against him.

The judge, Mrs Justice Lambert, said it was an "audacious" and extensively planned scheme to "kill a man in plain sight", which nearly worked.

"By your masquerading, you struck at the heart of public confidence in the health care profession," she told Kwan.

The judge's sentencing remarks can be read in full at: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/r-...

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