Twisted GP pleads GUILTY to trying to kill mum’s lover with poison jab after donning disguise to pose as Covid nurse

A TWISTED GP has admitted trying to termination his mum's person with a poison injection aft posing arsenic a Covid nurse.

Dr Thomas Kwan, 53, wore a bizarre fake beard and hairpiece arsenic portion of an "audacious" program to execution Patrick O’Hara.

The GP wanted to inherit mum Jenny Leung's property but the brace had fallen retired implicit her plans to permission her location to Patrick instead.

Patrick, 71, was fortunate to past aft the toxin caused a "rare and life-threatening flesh-eating disease".

Kwan denied attempted execution but contiguous dramatically changed his plea connected the 2nd time of his trial.

He antecedently admitted injecting Patrick with a poison but claimed helium meant to inflict "no much than mild symptom and discomfort".

Prosecutor Mr Peter Makepeace KC said it was an “extraordinary case” and told jurors: “Sometimes the information truly is alien than fiction.”

Newcastle Crown Court heard Kwan had been collecting unsafe chemicals including liquid mercury, sulphuric acerb and arsenic successful the build-up to the horror.

He had besides prepared letters with a "chilling authenticity" from a made-up NHS section called the Community Associated Nursing team.

His stepdad fell for the missive "hook, enactment and sinker", the tribunal was told.

On January 22 this year, Kwan near his location successful Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, successful his Toyota Yaris fitted with mendacious plates.

He was past spotted connected CCTV checking into a Premier Inn successful Newcastle nether a mendacious sanction arsenic the execution crippled got underway.

Footage showed him a fewer hours aboriginal leaving the edifice successful a disguise including a agelong coat, surgical gloves and a look mask.

The tribunal was told helium travelled to Patrick's location and said helium was from the NHS utilizing a "broken English accent".

He past told the pensioner helium was going to springiness him a Covid booster injection.

His program was truthful palmy adjacent Kwan's mum was "oblivious" to the information the alleged caregiver was her son.

Prosecutor Peter Makepeace KC said: "Immediately Mr O’Hara felt a unspeakable symptom and jumped back. He shouted, ‘bloody Hell’ and explained the contiguous and aggravated pain, but the caregiver reassured him.

“From that constituent forward, the caregiver began to noticeably velocity up his departure, packing up his instrumentality and leaving the premises successful thing of a rush.

“As helium near the home, Ms. Leung came downstairs again and commented that the caregiver had been the aforesaid tallness arsenic her son.

“Upon that comment, and for the archetypal time, Mr O’Hara began to fishy thing was precise wrong. He went retired into the thoroughfare to spot if helium could drawback the caregiver up and get immoderate reassurance.

“He was excessively precocious retired into the thoroughfare and could find nary hint of the nurse. He returned location to find the symptom successful his limb increasing.”

Doctors discovered helium was suffering from necrotising fasciitis - a "rare, life-threatening flesh-eating disease".

Patrick needed aggregate surgeries to region "very sizeable portions" of his arm.

Kwan was arrested 2 weeks aboriginal and cops uncovered the afloat grade of his execution plot.

Officers besides recovered castor lipid beans successful his store and a look for manufacturing ricin from the beans.

A MoD chemic weapons adept was brought successful but was incapable to found precisely which poison was utilized to inject the victim.

Kwan, who had an "encyclopaedic cognition of poisons", had grown "obsessed" with money and his inheritance earlier hatching the sinister plan.

He had go estranged from his mum, who had been successful narration with Patrick for much than 20 years.

Kwan was remanded into custody to beryllium sentenced astatine a aboriginal date.