Mr. Thomas Kwan, the defendant in the case, was in January of this year a respected and experienced medical doctor in general practice... From November 2023 at the latest, and probably long before then, he devised an intricate plan to kill his mother's long-term partner, a man called Patrick O'Hara. On any view, that man had done absolutely nothing to offend Mr. Kwan in any way whatsoever.
The crown's case was that he meant to kill his mother's partner of more than 20 years, who developed a rare flesh-eating disease as a result of the injection in his arm.
Kwan sparked a major emergency services operation when police found lethal chemicals stored in the detached garage at his home... he meant to cause no more than mild pain.
Kwan, a Hong Kong-born doctor, had developed an encyclopaedic knowledge of poisons, the court heard, and he studied how to get away with murder.
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