CBRN event in United Kingdom on Mon 22nd January 2024

Once-respected doctor Thomas Kwan was today jailed for 31 years and five months for trying to to kill Patrick O'Hara, now 72, after experimenting with a series of noxious substances, including castor beans to make ricin, in a row over his mother Jenny's will. Kwan, 53, dramatically changed his plea to guilty mid-way through a trial at Newcastle Crown Court earlier this month. Mr O'Hara was rushed to hospital in the weeks after the jab, diagnosed with necrotising fasciitis, a life-threatening flesh-eating disease, and had to be treated in intensive care. In footage released today, Kwan is seen in his home being arrested by an officer while standing in his pyjamas. In the clip, he doesn't appear to say anything but acknowledges that he understands why he has been arrested. Mrs Justice Lambert today told Kwan: "Your intention of visiting the home was to administer a lethal injection of poison to Mr O'Hara on the pretence of administering a Covid booster. It was an audacious plan to murder a man in plain sight and you very nearly succeeded in your objection. "You were in the home of Mr O'Hara for 40 minutes and for some part of that your mother was also present and you took her blood pressure. Extraordinary though it seems, so trusting were they that neither recognised you under your disguise." Justice Lambert said financial gain was the motive behind the attempted killing and added: "You were certainly obsessed by money and more particularly by money which you considered yourself to be entitled. "I have no doubt that the reason why you tried to kill Mr O'Hara was for financial gain. You knew your mother had left the house to her children but you also knew she had changed her will to give Mr O'Hara a life interest in the house. By killing him you removed the obstacle which lay between you and your recovery of your share of the property following your mother's death."