THIS is the moment a GP allegedly donned the mask of a Covid nurse in an attempt to kill his stepfather by injecting him with poison.
Dr Thomas Kwan, 53, posed as a community nurse as part of an elaborate plan to kill Patrick O’Hara so he could inherit mum Jenny’s estate, it has been said.
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Thomas Kwan disguised as an NHS nurse
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Kwan wore a fake beard and wig for his fake nurse’s card, jurors heard Credit: Northumbria Police
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His own mother was deceived by his disguise
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Kwan used a ‘broken English accent’
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Teesside Crime Scene Credit: PA
It was so successful that even she was fooled by his surgical mask, hat and dark glasses, the jury was told.
Moments after receiving the injection, Mr O’Hara, 72, fell ill as the deadly, flesh-eating disease necrotizing fasciitis began to attack his body.
On January 22 this year, Kwan left his home in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, in his Toyota Yaris fitted with fake number plates and booked into a Premier Inn in Newcastle under a false name, the trial heard.
Footage shown in court showed him leaving the hotel several hours later in a disguise including a long coat, surgical gloves and a face mask.
The court was told he traveled to Patrick’s home and said he was from the NHS using a “broken English accent”.
Kwan’s mom was “unaware” of the fact that the so-called nurse was allegedly her son.
The GP told Patrick he was going to give him an injection for the Covid disease, jurors heard.
Mr Makepeace added: “Mr O’Hara immediately felt excruciating pain and jumped back. He shouted, ‘Damn it’ and explained the immediate and intense pain, but was calmed down by a nurse.
“From that point on, the nurse began to noticeably hasten his departure, packing up his equipment and leaving the premises in a hurry.
“As he was leaving the house, Mrs Leung came downstairs again and said the nurse was the same height as her son.
“At that comment, for the first time, Mr. O’Hara began to suspect that something was wrong. He went out into the street to see if he could catch a nurse and get some security.
“He was late on the street and couldn’t find any sign of the nurse. He returned home to find that the pain in his arm was increasing.”
Kwan fled in his Toyota Yaris car with fake number plates in a bid to avoid police cameras, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
He was arrested two weeks later and officers revealed the full extent of his alleged murder plot which involved fabricating a fictitious NHS department and doctor to trick Mr O’Hara into receiving a supposed Covid vaccine.
Prosecutor Peter Makepeace KC told jurors: “Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
“The case you are going to try, from any point of view, is an extraordinary case.
“Thomas Kwan, the accused in January of this year, was a respected and experienced general practitioner.
“Later than November 2023, and possibly long before that, he hatched an elaborate plan to kill his mother’s longtime partner, Patrick O’Hara.
“That man did absolutely nothing to offend Mr. Kwan. He was, however, a potential obstacle to Mr Kwan inheriting his mother’s estate after her death.
“Mr Kwan used his encyclopedic knowledge of poisons to carry out his plan to disguise himself as a community nurse, visit Mr O’Hara’s address, the home he shared with the defendant’s mother, and inject him with a dangerous poison under the pretense of giving him a Covid booster shot.
“It was a very carefully planned plan. It involved Mr Kwan forging NHS documents to lure Mr O’Hara into his scheme; personal mask to protect his identity from his victim and his mother.
“This included him forging the number plates on his car and using false information to book a hotel.
“It was a daring plan, it was a plan to kill a man in plain sight, to kill a man in front of his own mother, that man’s life partner.”
Mr O’Hara and Kwan’s mother Jenny Leung, 73, had been in a stable relationship for more than 20 years and lived in a house in Newcastle city center owned by Ms Leung.
Kwan admitted administering the noxious substance to Mr O’Hara – who survived – but denied attempting to kill or cause grievous bodily harm with intent on January 22 this year, claiming he only wanted to cause him “slight discomfort”.
The case continues.
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