Jealous doctor in England dons cheap wig, phony facial hair to fool moms beau, poison him over inheritance
A doctor in England wore a ridiculous disguise — replete with a cheap wig and phony facial hair — so he could poison his mother’s partner, clearing the way for his own inheritance, the physician admitted Monday in court.Thomas Kwan, 53, pleaded guilty to attempted murder for shooting a pesticide into the arm of his mom’s 71-year-old beau, Patrick O’Hara, which gave him a “rare and life-threatening flesh-eating disease” back in January, according to the BBC.The devious doc had previously denied the charges in Newcastle Crown Court — as prosecutors claimed he went to extraordinary lengths to fashion “one of the most elaborate criminal plots in recent memory,” according to the Guardian.Kwan, a native of Hong Kong who lives about an hour south of his mom’s northern England home, admitted giving O’Hara the toxic shot, but at first claimed he’d only wanted to cause his victim some pain and discomfort.At the trial’s opening, prosecutor Peter Makepeace called Kwan’s plot an audacious, stranger-than-fiction story meant to avenge his mom’s decision to leave her house to her longtime lover when she died.The well-respected general practitioner was obsessed with money, Makepeace said, and hatched the twisted plan to eliminate O’Hara by donning a dead-rat wig and wispy facial hair, then claiming he was from the country’s National Health Service, according to the outlet.He sent a letter to his victim saying he was eligible for a medical checkup by a community nurse who would come to his Newcastle home.“As, I suspect, would any of us, Mr.O’Hara fell for it hook, line and sinker; he had not the slightest suspicion that this was anything other than a genuine NHS community care initiative which he warmly welcomed and was grateful for,” Makepeace said in court.When Kwan arrived at O’Hara’s home on Jan.
22, he wore tinted glasses, a medical mask, a hat and gloves as he carried out a full exam on his mom’s unsuspecting lover, the Guardian ...