Sunderland GP jailed for poisoning mum's partner over inheritance


A GP in the UK has been sentenced to 31 years and five months in prison for poisoning his mother’s partner in an argument over an inheritance. Thomas Kwan, who had disguised himself as a community nurse administering a coronavirus booster jab, injected Patrick O’Hara with a toxin in January. Mr O’Hara contracted a life-threatening flesh-eating disease that required extensive treatment and left him with PTSD, requiring ongoing physiotherapy. Kwan had plotted the attack for months and had been motivated purely by greed.

The GP, who worked at Happy House Surgery in Sunderland, was obsessed with money and angry that his mother had created a will in 2021 granting her Newcastle home to her partner of 21 years. Kwan had installed spyware on his mother’s computer to track her finances. He was described as calculated and callous by the sentencing judge, Mrs Justice Lambert. Kwan had admitted attempted murder after the first day of his trial.

Kwan had created a fake ID under the name Raj Pate

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