{"id":122931,"date":"2024-11-07T02:53:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122931"},"modified":"2024-11-07T02:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:53:44","slug":"british-doctor-who-disguised-himself-as-a-nurse-and-poisoned-his-mothers-partner-gets-31-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122931","title":{"rendered":"British doctor who disguised himself as a nurse and poisoned his mother&#8217;s partner gets 31 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A British doctor who was disgruntled about his inheritance and injected his mother&#8217;s boyfriend with poison presented as a COVID-19 vaccine was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/doctor-thomas-kwan-admits-attempted-murder-fake-vaccine-poison\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dr. Thomas Kwan<\/a><\/span> disguised himself as a nurse making home visits to inject Patrick O&#8217;Hara with a poison that caused a life-threatening flesh-eating disease. Kwan believed O&#8217;Hara stood in the way of him inheriting his mother&#8217;s home someday, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was an audacious plan to murder a man in plain sight and you very nearly succeeded,&#8221; Justice Christina Lambert said. &#8220;You were certainly obsessed by money and more particularly, the money to which you considered yourself entitled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter_signup \">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-newsletter-widget embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-iframe\" data-ads=\"{\" wordcount=\"\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kwan, 53, pleaded guilty last month in Newcastle Crown Court to attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hara, 72, survived after being in intensive care for several weeks. The poison caused \u00a0and having part of his arm cut away to prevent the flesh-eating disease, called necrotizing fasciitis, from spreading.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"disguise-screenshot-2024-10-07-104135.jpg \" height=\"382\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/10\/07\/6fdbf738-6d9c-4cad-8986-d13f79691fc7\/thumbnail\/620x382\/395fc8d23822338f1a257b70eec8a1b9\/disguise-screenshot-2024-10-07-104135.jpg?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/10\/07\/6fdbf738-6d9c-4cad-8986-d13f79691fc7\/thumbnail\/1240x764\/081ad7d341368b526b1b134f6437c2e0\/disguise-screenshot-2024-10-07-104135.jpg?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Thomas Kwan<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Northumbria Police<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>O&#8217;Hara previously told Newcastle Crown Court\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crr541ey0nzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he had become a &#8220;shell&#8221; of himself<\/a>, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hara and Kwan&#8217;s mother, Jenny Leung, have since split up.<\/p>\n<p>Police used surveillance camera footage to track down Kwan.<\/p>\n<p>They found he had hatched an elaborate plot by sending fake letters with National Health Service logos, hyperlinks and even a QR code to offer a home visit for a COVID booster to O&#8217;Hara. Kwan disguised himself in head-to-toe protective gear, tinted glasses and a surgical mask and drove a vehicle to the appointment in January using fake license plates.<\/p>\n<p>Before Kwan injected O&#8217;Hara in the arm, the doctor spent 45 minutes at a hospital, speaking with a broken Asian accent and carrying out blood checks and health surveys, the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvg7d5n2mj9o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/10\/07\/dfcf52e1-da70-456a-8ab2-837a1e22aff5\/thumbnail\/620x1011\/7f154aa8484550318b17627351f9d412\/2024-10-07t131725z-976995880-rc2e29ajr7mi-rtrmadp-3-britain-court-doctor.jpg?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7#\" alt=\"A handout image of Thomas Kwan \" height=\"1011\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/10\/07\/dfcf52e1-da70-456a-8ab2-837a1e22aff5\/thumbnail\/620x1011\/7f154aa8484550318b17627351f9d412\/2024-10-07t131725z-976995880-rc2e29ajr7mi-rtrmadp-3-britain-court-doctor.jpg?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/10\/07\/dfcf52e1-da70-456a-8ab2-837a1e22aff5\/thumbnail\/1240x2022\/9fb05ad2b051a8d2bed5ee1bc66aa92d\/2024-10-07t131725z-976995880-rc2e29ajr7mi-rtrmadp-3-britain-court-doctor.jpg?v=c1d30b1df13c40bf65c6c1e6d9ac4ad7 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Thomas Kwan is seen in disguise, in this screengrab from a CCTV footage taken on January 22, 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Northumbria Police\/Handout via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kwan, who was described as having a morbid obsession with poisons, used iodomethane, a substance found in pesticides that he thought would be difficult for medics to detect, the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>Police found arsenic, liquid mercury and castor beans, which can be used to make the chemical weapon ricin, during a search of his home. He had instructions on how to make ricin on his computer.<\/p>\n<p>Kwan was upset about getting a smaller share of his inheritance when his father died. He had a strained relationship with his mother and learned that she had a provision in her will that would allow O&#8217;Hara to stay in her home if she predeceased him.<\/p>\n<p>The doctor had installed spyware on his mother&#8217;s computer years earlier to track her finances, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvg7d5n2mj9o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your resentment and bitterness towards your mother and Mr. O&#8217;Hara was all to do with money and your belief you were not being given money which you thought you were entitled to,&#8221; the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hara said justice had been served by the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/thomas-kwan-sentenced-attempted-murder-fake-vaccine-poison-uk\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British doctor who was disgruntled about his inheritance and injected his mother&#8217;s boyfriend with poison presented as a COVID-19 vaccine was sentenced Wednesday to 31 years in prison. 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