GP jailed for inheritance row murder plot

Thomas Kwan. Credit: Northumbria Police/PA Wire

By Tom Wilkinson, PA Media

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.