A British doctor was sentenced to more than 31 years in prison on Wednesday for a daring but unsuccessful plot to kill his mother’s partner with a fake. covid-19 vaccinewhich involved him forging medical documents and dressing in disguise to poison his victim.

Thomas Kwan, 53, posed as a nurse and even took his own mother’s blood pressure before administering poison to her then-partner Patrick O’Hara in Newcastle. the north of England.

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O’Hara survived but suffered from necrotizing fasciitis, a potentially fatal flesh-eating bacterial infection, after taking the hit. He also underwent several surgeries.

Kwan, a GP from Sunderland, pleaded guilty to attempted murder last month shortly after his trial began at Newcastle Crown Court. He previously admitted a charge of administering a noxious substance.

Judge Christina Lambert sentenced Kwan to 31 years and five months in prison for what she described as “an audacious plan to kill a man on sight”.

She told Kwan that his plan involved him “misusing your knowledge of the health care system,” adding that his actions damaged public trust in the health profession.

A British doctor has been jailed for more than 31 years for plotting to kill his mother’s partner with a fake COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement after the sentencing that O’Hara had been injected with “an as yet unconfirmed toxin”.

“Stranger Than Fiction”

Prosecutor Peter Makepeace told jurors on the first day of Kwan’s trial: “Sometimes, maybe occasionally, the truth really is stranger than fiction.”

He said Kwan was concerned about his mother’s will, which stipulated that her house would be inherited by O’Hara if he was still alive when his mother died.

“Mr. Kwan used his encyclopedic knowledge and research on poisons to carry out his plan,” Makepeace said.

“The plan was to disguise himself as a community health worker, attend Mr O’Hara’s address, the home he shared with the defendant’s mother, and inject him with a dangerous poison under the guise of administering a COVID booster shot.”

Kwan checked into a hotel under a false name, used fake numbers on his car and disguised himself with a wig to carry out the plan, Makepeace added.

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After Kwan was arrested, police found a large number of castor beans and a recipe for making ricin, a biological toxin made from beans, in his home. Exposure to a needle head the amount of castor oil can cause death.

However, a chemical expert concluded that O’Hara was not injected with ricin.