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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Evans and Tara Cobham

Man injected with flesh-eating chemical by partner’s disgraced GP son went ‘to hell and back’

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A disgraced GP who injected his mother’s long-term partner with a rare flesh-eating disease, claiming it was Covid booster jab, sent his victim to go “to hell and back”, a court has heard.

Thomas Kwan, 53, disguised himself as a community nurse and devised an intricate plan to kill Patrick O’Hara, 72, after the “money-obsessed” father-of-one learnt his mother had named him in her will.

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