Doctor convicted of trying to kill with flesh-eating bacteria

British justice has delivered its verdict in a terrible family case. For attempting to murder his mother’s partner, a 53-year-old doctor was sentenced to 31 years and 5 months in prison on Wednesday, according to information from Northumbria Police.

Thomas Kwan, who admitted the facts, had sent his victim false medical letters, claiming that he was to receive an injection. He then went in disguise to the home of his mother’s partner on January 22, in Newcastle in the north-east of England. To avoid being recognized by him and his mother, he wore a wig, a fake mustache and a fake goatee. He was then able to proceed with the injection.

The scheme discovered by the hospital

In the hours following the injection, the victim, 70, became seriously ill and developed a serious skin condition around the injection area. The man was then admitted to hospital. And it was “by presenting several letters for the medical appointment during which he received the injection, that the hospital staff discovered that they were false and informed the Northumbria police”, explains this last.

Although the septuagenarian was fortunately able to survive this assassination attempt, he has significant after-effects. It must be said that according to The Parisianhis stepson had injected him with “flesh-eating bacteria” while posing “as a nurse at a Newcastle health center responsible for administering booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine” .

A poisoner’s manual to the culprit’s home

According to police, when he was arrested at his home, Thomas Kwan had on his computer a “poisoner’s manual” and a book giving advice in a murder investigation. “Several files relating to poisons intended to kill a person and poisons to be used to evade detection were also discovered on his computer.” For all of these facts, this general practitioner is now sleeping in prison.