A British doctor on Monday pleaded guilty to an audacious but unsuccessful plot to kill his mother\u2019s partner with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, which involved him forging medical documents and dressing in disguise to inject his victim with poison. <\/p>\n
Thomas Kwan, 53, passed himself off as a nurse and even took his own mother\u2019s blood pressure before administering poison to her partner, Patrick O\u2019Hara, in Newcastle, northern England. <\/p>\n
O\u2019Hara survived but suffered from necrotising faciitis, a potentially fatal flesh-eating bacterial infection, after receiving the jab, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
Kwan, a family doctor in Sunderland, pleaded guilty to attempted murder on Monday, shortly after his trial began at Newcastle Crown Court last week, court staff said. <\/p>\n
He had previously admitted a charge of administering a noxious substance. <\/p>\n
Prosecutor Peter Makepeace had told jurors on the first day of the trial, on Thursday: \u201cSometimes, occasionally perhaps, the truth really is stranger than fiction.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said Kwan was concerned about his mother\u2019s will, which provided that her house would be inherited by O\u2019Hara if he was still alive when his mother died. <\/p>\n
\u201cMr Kwan used his encyclopedic knowledge of, and research into, poisons to carry out his plan,\u201d Makepeace said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat plan was to disguise himself as a community nurse, attend Mr O\u2019Hara\u2019s address, the home he shared with the defendant\u2019s mother, and inject him with a dangerous poison under the pretext of administering a Covid booster injection.\u201d <\/p>\n
Kwan checked into a hotel under a false name, used false number plates on his car and disguised himself with a wig to carry out the plan, Makepeace added. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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