A respected doctor in the United Kingdom has confessed to attempting to murder his mother’s longtime partner by administering a fake Covid-19 booster that resulted in a flesh-eating bacterial infection. Thomas Kwan, a 53-year-old General Practitioner (GP) from Sunderland, admitted in court to plotting the elaborate scheme to kill 72-year-old Patrick O’Hara at his mother’s home in January.
Kwan, originally from Hong Kong, posed as a community nurse to inject Mr. O’Hara with the counterfeit vaccine. His motive, the court heard, was to inherit his mother’s estate upon her death. O’Hara had been named in her will, a decision that had strained Kwan’s relationship with his mother, Jenny Leung. The prosecution revealed that Kwan devised his plan over several months, using fake documents, shell companies, and various disguises to gain access to his victim.
Initially, Kwan pleaded not guilty to attempted murder, but he changed his plea to guilty earlier this week after the prosecution presented its case. The court was told that Kwan had gone to great lengths to execute the plan. He even sent two falsified doctor’s letters, claiming Mr. O’Hara was due for a home Covid-19 vaccination. On the day of the attack, Kwan checked into a hotel under a false identity before arriving at his mother’s house, where he conducted medical tests and administered the fake booster to Mr. O’Hara.
The injection caused O’Hara “excruciating pain” and resulted in necrotizing fasciitis, a life-threatening bacterial infection commonly known as a flesh-eating disease. O’Hara required extensive treatment, including weeks in intensive care and multiple surgeries to remove infected tissue from his arm.
Prosecutor Peter Makepeace described the incident as an intricate murder plot, carried out “in plain sight” and in front of Kwan’s own mother. Kwan will be sentenced on October 17, with the judge, Mrs. Justice Lambert, warning that he faces a “substantial” prison sentence. The shocking case has captured public attention due to Kwan’s professional standing and the extreme lengths he went to in his plot to inherit his mothe
