Prosecutors in the UK said Thomas Kwan pretended to be a community nurse delivering booster shots in an attempt to kill the man standing between him and an inheritance.
LONDON — A British doctor on Monday admitted trying to kill his mother’s long-term partner, who stood between him and an inheritance, by injecting the man with poison disguised as a COVID-19 vaccine.
Prosecutor Thomas Makepeace told the court that Kwan was a “respected and experienced” family doctor based in Sunderland, about 15 miles from Newcastle. The lawyer said Kwan used his “encyclopedic knowledge” of poisons in his plot to kill O’Hara, who was “a potential impediment to Mr. Kwan inheriting his mother’s estate upon her death.”
Kwan was identified with the help of surveillance camera footage. Police who searched his home found an array of chemicals, including arsenic and liquid mercury, as well as castor beans which can be used to make the chemical weapon ricin.Christopher Atkinson of the Crown Prosecution Service said Kwan had refused to identify the poison, “allowing the victim’s health to further deteriorate.”Thank you for your past contribution to HuffPost.
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