Evil GP jailed for posing as Covid nurse to inject mother’s partner with poison admits trying to kill him on further occasions using wine bottles laced with deadly substance

The evil doctor jailed for more than 30 years for attempting to kill his mother’s partner by posing as a Covid nurse has admitted trying to poison the pensioner on several other occasions.

Thomas Kwan, 54, sent Patrick O’Hara, 73, at least three bottles of poisoned thallium after persuading him to sign up for a fake wine distribution company he set up, Newcastle Crown Court heard today.

The court heard that the ‘Northern Wine and Beverage Tasting Club’ ‘does not exist’ and that it was actually Kwan who prepared the documents that persuaded Mr O’Hara to sign up for deliveries.

A total of 18 to 21 bottles were sent to Mr O’Hara’s address in Newcastle-upon-Tyne between September 2022 and January last year; At least three of these were “tallified with thallium,” a poison that eventually left Mr. O’Hara in intensive care.

The court heard that another man, Torquil Gundlach, was also exposed to poison after Mr O’Hara unknowingly gifted him a bottle of tampered wine.

Prosecutor Peter Makepeace KC said that while not all wine bottles contained thallium, “if every single bottle delivered had been laced, every single bottle would have caused instant illness and this scheme would have quickly come to a halt.”

‘Original bottles were sent to lull the victim into a sense of security.’

In November last year, Kwan was jailed for 31 years and five months for injecting poison into Mr O’Hara while posing as a community nurse and offering a coronavirus vaccine jab.

Posing as ‘Raj Patel’ and using a fake Asian accent, he arranged the visit with numerous fake letters.

Mr O’Hara contracted a flesh-eating disease and told Newcastle Crown Court he had become a ‘shell’.

Kwan is seen wearing fake hair extensions, a beard and a moustache in a selfie. He took this selfie to create a fake ID under the name ‘Raj Patel’

Victim Patrick O’Hara leaves Newcastle Crown Court with friends following the earlier sentencing hearing of GP Thomas Kwan

The new attempts at Mr. O’Hara, which Kwan admitted, predate the ‘nurse’ attempt.

Last year the court heard the GP, who worked at Happy House Surgery in Sunderland and lived with his wife and young son in a large detached house in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, was ‘obsessed’ with money and angry that his mother, Wai King Leung, also known as Jenny, had given Mr O’Hara a say in his inheritance.

Her mother withdrew £1 million from their joint bank account before divorcing Kwan’s father.

Kwan felt that he was not treated fairly regarding his father’s inheritance because he did not receive the largest share of his inheritance, which he thought he was entitled to.

Newcastle Crown Court heard that, even after his arrest, he complained from prison about the compensation he would receive for the horrific injuries he suffered as a result of being poisoned by Mr O’Hara.

Regarding the wine murder plot, Mr Makepeace added that there was evidence that two seized bottles contained poison.

‘There is evidence that a third bottle was delivered and consumed’ [Mr O’Hara] It caused an illness consistent with thallium poisoning.’

The Hong Kong-born doctor was sentenced to life imprisonment at the same court in November after he admitted conspiring to murder Mr O’Hara in what sentencing judge Mrs Justice Lambert described as “an audacious plot to murder a man in public”.

Kwan sent two fake letters containing NHS logos, hyperlinks and even a QR code, offering Mr O’Hara a home visit from a community nurse in January 2024.

The moment Kwan was arrested at his £500,000 detached house in connection with the attempted murder of Mr O’Hara

Kwan arrived at the couple’s home in central Newcastle in disguise and carried out a health check before administering a fake Covid vaccine, which was actually the poison iodomethane used in pesticides.

Incredibly, he even gave his own mother a blood pressure test without realizing the ‘nurse’ was her own son.

Mr. O’Hara felt a sharp pain and Kwan quickly ran away. The pensioner became seriously ill and had to undergo plastic surgery.

In an emotional interview with the Daily Mail last year, Mr O’Hara said: ‘He might not have succeeded in killing me, but he took me to Hell and back. I can’t describe in words how bad the pain is.

Describing the moment the ‘nurse’ arrived at her door, she added: ‘She would wear brown make-up to darken her skin.

‘My friends and I laughed at his disguise. He looks like Inspector Clouseau, doesn’t he?’

When officers caught up with Kwan after reviewing CCTV, they discovered a number of dangerous chemicals in his garage, as well as instructions on how to make the poison ricin.

Mr O’Hara and Ms Leung have separated since the attempts on his life.

Kwan was struck off the medical register following a hearing at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in September.

Kwan, who appeared via video link from HMP Frankland, Durham, said he could hear Judge Edward Bindloss tell him he would be sentenced for further offenses in January.