A GP who was convicted of attempted murder after posing as a community nurse to inject his mother’s partner with a toxin has been struck off the UK medical register.
Thomas Kwan, 54, sent Patrick O’Hara false NHS letters pretending to set up an appointment for a covid-19 booster, a medical practitioners tribunal heard. Kwan feared that O’Hara could stand in the way of inheriting his mother’s home in Newcastle after her death.
In January 2024, wearing a disguise and speaking in a fake accent, Kwan injected O’Hara with the highly toxic fumigant pesticide iodomethane, causing pain that Kwan …
