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More bizarre than a novel! Chinese doctor pretended to be a nurse in order to fight for his inheritance, and injected his mother and boyfriend with poison injections.....
According to Sing Tao Daily Comprehensive Skynews, BBC and other reports, a general practitioner in United Kingdom Guan Mou (* Kwan) is suspected of fighting for the inheritance, carefully planning to inject his mother's boyfriend with poison needles, in order to achieve the goal, he forged NHS (United Kingdom National Health Service) letters and fake employee ID cards, disguised as a community nurse, and went to his mother's house wearing a mask to commit the crime.
The prosecutor described the defendant's conduct as gruesome and more bizarre than the novel. The interrogation continues.
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53 years old, middle-aged married, working as a general practitioner in United Kingdom, with an annual salary of 140,000 pounds (about 300,000 New Zealand dollars), and a house that pays off the loan.
It stands to reason that Thomas Kwan, a Chinese in United Kingdom, will not be short of money in his life.
To everyone's shock, he would kill his mother's partner for money.
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Disguised as a nurse to inject poison into her mother's partner
On January 22 this year, 73-year-old Chinese Wai Kings Leung and her partner, 72-year-old Patrick O'Hara, welcomed a guest at their home in Newcastle, United Kingdom.
A man who identified himself as a community nurse, wore a hat and mask, did not speak English very well, and had a thick Asian accent.
O'Hara看了他的工作证件——Raj Patel，似乎是个印度裔，证件照看着也像。
The man said he had come to give O'Hara a covid booster shot, and in November O'Hara received an email from the NHS in the United Kingdom saying he had been selected by the community care team for home visits.
In January this year, he received a letter confirming that a nurse would come to his home on January 22.
The day before, he had also received a confirmation text message reminding him of his appointment time.
So, O'Hara and Leung were not surprised by the visit of this "India" nurse.
The nurse gave O'Hara a medical questionnaire, took his blood pressure, and drew two tubes of blood.
At this time, Ms. Leung also came downstairs and told the nurse that she was worried about her blood pressure, and the nurse kindly took her blood pressure as well.
He then took out the needle and injected it into Mr. O'Hara's arm, O'Hara suddenly felt a sharp pain and was so frightened that he stepped back, but the nurse assured him that it was a normal reaction, and then packed up his things and quickly left.
As he was leaving, Leung said that the nurse was as tall as his son, and O'Hara suddenly suspected that something was not quite right.
He had severe pain in his arm and was taken to the emergency room, where the next day, the injection site was blistered, he was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis and admitted to the intensive care unit.
After receiving the report, the police used CCTV to track the whereabouts of the "nurse" and finally located Leung's son, Thomas Kwan.
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He had a lot of money but asked his mother for money
This result caused Leung to gasp, and her son was standing right in front of her, but she didn't recognize it.
Born in Hong Kong and living in the United Kingdom with her son and daughter, Leung owns a £200,000 ($427,000) apartment in Newcastle.
She and O'Hara became partners more than 20 years ago.
Her son, Thomas Kwan, 53, has been working as a doctor since graduating from Newcastle University in 1996 with a medical degree and later as a partner in a surgical practice, a position that usually pays £140,000 (NZ$300,000) a year.
In 2010, Kwan bought a detached house for £360,000 ($769,000) in Ingleby Barwick, more than 30 kilometres from Newcastle, with no mortgage.
It stands to reason that Kwan had a good income and a decent life, but the police learned that he had been asking his mother for money until she refused to answer his calls.
On February 5, Kwan was arrested for attempted murder, and police searched his home and garage and found multiple homemade poisons of different kinds, including arsenic, liquid mercury and ricin.
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The relationship deteriorated before the incident, and the poisoning was carefully planned
The deterioration of the mother-son relationship began in September 2021, when Leung made a will that if he died, his partner O'Hara could spend the rest of his life in her apartment. The apartment could only be sold after O'Hara's death or permission was obtained, with the proceeds inherited by Kwan and his sister.
Kwan was very unhappy with this and put pressure on her mother several times.
In November 2022, he suddenly showed up at his mother's house and got into an argument with them, and O'Hara called the police.
However, fearing that Kwan's career as a doctor would be affected, they told the police that they did not want to make a big deal out of it.
Kwan didn't give up, and he installed monitoring software on his mother's computer to monitor her finances.
At the same time, he began to collect literature on poisons and poisoning on his computer, and obtained toxic substances from various sources, including thallium, potassium cyanide, and methyl iodide.
Police found in his computer a forged NHS letter addressed to Mr O'Hara, as well as a photo and ID of him wearing a wig and a fake beard.
He started planning months in advance, checking into a Newcastle hotel the day before he started.
Kwan's mother, surnamed Leung, lives in Newcastle, and she made a will.
It has been reported that for this reason, the defendant Kwan was very dissatisfied, and the relationship between the mother and son became strained, and the defendant was even accused of attempting to murder O'Hara, who had been with his mother for 20 years, on January 22 this year.
The prosecutor said the defendant had been orchestrating the operation since November 2023 or even earlier, posing as a community nurse named Raj Patel and injecting O'Hara with a booster vaccine.
In order to make the plan seamless, the defendant, who is married and has a son, made a series of absurd and sophisticated arrangements, including forging a letter from the National Health Service of United Kingdom to O'Hara, texting a "shot appointment" with a backup SIM card, and opening a fake company to order toxic chemicals, and then asked for four days off from the clinic himself, checked into a hotel in Newcastle under a false name, and on the day of the crime, he put a fake license plate on the car and went to his mother's house.
In order not to be recognized by his mother, the defendant, wearing a long coat, a flat hat, surgical gloves, a medical mask and tinted glasses, stayed at his mother's house for 45 minutes for a medical examination, and even checked her blood pressure at the request of her unsuspecting mother.
Finally, the defendant told O'Hara in broken English with an Asian accent that he needed a COVID booster dose, even though he had already taken one three months earlier.
The court was informed that after the injection, O'Hara felt "severe pain", but the defendant assured him that it was not unusual, and then packed up and left.
In pain, Mr O'Hara called his private doctor and learned that the NHS letter given to him by the defendant was fake, so he went to the emergency room and was later diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, which the prosecution described as "a rare and life-threatening flesh-eating disease".
Over the next few days, doctors had to remove a diseased muscle in O'Hara's arm, and he spent weeks in the intensive care unit.
The defendant pleaded guilty to injecting poison into O'Hara but denied attempted murder and another count of intentional grievous bodily harm, claiming that his purpose was only to cause "minor pain and discomfort" to O'Hara.
Hong Kong-born Kwan knows a lot about poisons, and after his arrest, he refused to tell police what drugs he injected O'Hara, delaying diagnosis and treatment.
Doctors suspected that the poison was ricin found in the Kwan garage, only to later confirm that it was methyl iodide — a substance that has never been recorded as poisoning — and that identification and treatment were difficult.
Fortunately, O'Hara was rescued after removing the muscle at the injection site.
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"He has no remorse for it"
Kwan has been suspended by the United Kingdom Medical Council since February.
This week, after the prosecution presented his case to a jury, he pleaded guilty to attempted murder.
But he has no remorse about it.
"Even while in prison awaiting trial, Kwan expressed in his letter to his wife that he did not care about Mr. O'Hara's life and that he was disappointed that O'Hara might survive and receive compensation," the prosecution's lawyer said. ”
Prosecutor Peter Makepeace KC said, "Real life is more bizarre than fiction, and this case is no small deal.
"By any measure, O'Hara didn't do anything offensive to Kwan. But he was murdered for possible hindrance to Kwan's inheritance of property after his mother's death. ”
The case will be handed down next Thursday, with the judge warned: "Kwan's sentence will be very long. ”
It is reported that Leung has now sold the property that her son dreamed of.
(Excerpted from WeChat public account found New Zealand, 168 catch)