Hong Kong-born doctor tried to kill mother’s partner with fake jab causing flesh-eating disease

A Hong Kong-born doctor has admitted disguising himself as a nurse and attempting to murder his mother’s partner in Britain by injecting him with a poison-laced fake Covid vaccine in a dispute over inheritance of property.

Thomas Kwan, 53, wore a bizarre disguise consisting of a fake beard and hairpiece before administering the injection to his mother’s long-term lover at the couple’s home in Newcastle in the northeast of England, a court heard.

The victim, Patrick O’Hara, suffered from a life-threatening flesh-eating disease following the injection.

O’Hara had been in a relationship with Kwan’s mother Jenny Leung, also known as Wai King, for more than two decades and she was said to have named him in her will so he could stay in her house should she die before him, Newcastle Crown Court was told.

UK General Medical Council records show a doctor named Thomas Kwan graduated from the University of Newcastle in 1996, a Post search found. But it could not be immediately confirmed whether he and the defendant are the same person.