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Evening Standard
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Tom Wilkinson

GP who tried to poison mother’s partner with fake Covid jab jailed for 31 years

A GP who disguised himself as a nurse and poisoned his mother’s partner with a fake Covid jab in a plot to murder has been jailed for 31 years and five months.

Obsessed Dr Thomas Kwan previously pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of Patrick O’Hara, 72, in an extraordinary plan that was motivated by money and caused his victim to develop a flesh-eating disease.

Mrs Justice Lambert, sitting at Newcastle Crown Court, said: “It was an audacious plan to murder a man in plain sight and you very nearly succeeded in your objective.”

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