GP Jailed for 31 Years for Fake COVID-19 Jab Murder Attempt

Published on November 6, 2024

A GP who disguised himself as a nurse and poisoned his mother’s partner with a fake COVID-19 “booster” jab in an elaborate murder plot has been jailed for more than 31 years. Dr. Thomas Kwan, who was described as having a “encyclopaediac” knowledge of poisons and as feeling entitled to his mother’s money, had previously pleaded guilty to trying to murder Patrick O’Hara, 72, in his own home. Mrs. Justice Lambert, sentencing Kwan at Newcastle Crown Court on Wednesday, told him he had “struck at the heart of public confidence” in the NHS through his actions. “It was an audacious plan to murder a man in plain sight and you very nearly succeeded in your objective,” she told the disgraced doctor, who practised in Sunderland....