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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Tom Wilkinson

GP who tried to kill mother’s partner ‘struck at public confidence’ in NHS

GP Thomas Kwan was jailed for more than 31 years for trying to kill his mother’s partner with a fake Covid jab while disguised as a nurse (Northumbria Police/PA) -

A GP who disguised himself as a nurse and poisoned his mother’s partner with a fake Covid jab in a murder plot has been jailed for more than 31 years after a judge said he had “struck at the heart of public confidence” in the NHS.

Dr Thomas Kwan, described as having a “morbid obsession” with poisons and feeling entitled to his mother’s money, previously pleaded guilty to trying to murder Patrick O’Hara, 72, in his own home.

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