British doctor pleads guilty to daring , but an unsuccessful plot to kill his mother's partner with a fake vaccine against COVID-19, reports Reuters, quoted by News.bg.
The plan involved falsifying medical documents and disguise in order to inject poison into the victim.
Thomas Quan, 53, posed as a nurse and even took his own mother's blood pressure before injecting her partner Patrick O'Hara with poison in Newcastle, northern England.
Although O'Hara survived, after the "vaccine" he developed necrotizing fasciitis — a potentially fatal tissue-eroding bacterial infection.
Kwan, who is a GP in Sunderland, pleaded guilty to attempted murder shortly after his trial began at Newcastle Crown Court last week. He had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of administering a harmful substance.
Prosecutor Peter Makepeace told jurors on the first day of the trial: “Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction.“ He explained that Kwan had been worried about his mother's will, which said her house would be inherited by O'Hara if he was still alive when she died.
„Mr. Quan used his encyclopedic knowledge and research on poisons to carry out his plan,” pointed out Makepeace.
According to the plan, Quan pretended to be a nurse, visiting the O'Hara home — the same place where the accused's mother lived — and injected a dangerous poison under the pretext of administering a booster vaccine against COVID-19.
Quan checked into a hotel under a fake name, used fake license plates on his car and disguised himself with a wig to carry out the plan.