The doctor who poisoned the mother’s husband with a fake Covid vaccine was sentenced

LONDON (AP) — A British doctor dissatisfied with his inheritance and He injected poison into his mother’s boyfriend The man who was offered the Covid-19 vaccine was sentenced to 31 years in prison on Wednesday.

Thomas Kwan posed as a nurse making house calls to inject Patrick O’Hara with a flesh-eating poison because he believed he was preventing the old man from one day inheriting his mother’s house.

Judge Christina Lambert said: “It was a daring plan to kill a man in plain sight and you almost succeeded.” “You were absolutely obsessed with money, especially money that you felt was your right.”

Kwan, 53, pleaded guilty to attempted murder at Newcastle Crown Court last month.

O’Hara, 72, survived after spending several weeks in intensive care and having part of her arm amputated to prevent the spread of necrotizing fasciitis.

He said the ordeal left him “a shell of an individual”. O’Hara and Kwan’s mother, Jenny Leung, have since separated.

Police used security camera footage to find Kwan.

They discovered he had hatched an elaborate plot by sending fake letters containing NHS logos, hyperlinks and even a QR code to O’Hara to offer her a home visit for a Covid vaccine. Wearing head-to-toe protective gear, tinted glasses and a surgical mask, Kwan drove to her January appointment in a vehicle with fake license plates.

The judge said Kwan, who reportedly had a morbid obsession with poisons, used iodomethane, a substance found in pesticides that health officials thought would be difficult to detect.

When the police searched his home, they found arsenic, liquid mercury and castor beans that could be used to make the chemical weapon ricin. His computer had instructions on how to make ricin.

The judge said Kwan was upset that he received a smaller share of the inheritance when his father died. He had a strained relationship with his mother, and learned that her will contained a provision that would allow O’Hara to remain in her home if she predeceased him.

“Your resentment and resentment towards your mother and Mr. O’Hara had everything to do with money and your belief that you were not given the money you felt you were entitled to,” Lambert said.

O’Hara said that justice was served with the sentence given.

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