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It was an audacious plan to murder a man in plain sight and you very nearly succeeded,
Justice Christina Lambert said
Kwan's attempt on the life of Patrick O'Hara, while unsuccessful, has left his victim with life-changing injuries
Outside court, Christopher Atkinson, head of the Complex Casework Unit for CPS North East, said
You described your mother as being "money obsessed".
Mrs Justice Lambert addedYour mother had, you said, withdrawn £1 million from the joint account which she held with your father and had then forced him to divorce her
She told Newcastle Crown CourtI believe that justice has been done.
He thanked doctors and nurses at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary and asked about the sentence, he repliedYou say that I am selfish or greedy, but I would like you to make me the sole executor of your will, as well as giving me the most and largest proportion of the properties and inheritance as... you have told me many times that I am the one you love the most out of all children.
He wroteFollowing this incident contact between you and your mother was minimal and only indirect
The judge told himI had never in my life felt anything that painful before [when the needle went in his arm]
He saidYour resentment and bitterness towards your mother and Mr. O'Hara was all to do with money and your belief you were not being given money which you thought you were entitled to,
the judge said
It was clear to me that he has been transformed from a tough, stoical person that he was before the act,
Mrs Justice Lambert saidYou were certainly obsessed by money and more particularly, the money to which you considered yourself entitled
Mrs Justice Lambert told the defendant todaySometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction,
said the prosecuting barrister, Peter Makepeace KC, as he outlined a case which reads like the plot of an airport thriller
This incident should have been the end of me,
O’Hara saidIt’s not greed bred of a shortage of money, it’s not a greed bred of necessity,
Makepeace saidOne old man’s compensation for three young lives ruined. Where’s the justice in that?”
Kwan, a GP in Sunderland who lived with his wife and young son in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, wroteThe chemical injected caused increasingly severe damage, beginning with burns and blisters around the injection site and progressing into a potentially life-threatening flesh-eating disease."
He said last month
He was, however, a potential impediment to Mr Kwan inheriting his mother's estate upon her death."
But Mr Makepeace added
At a time when Kwan could have assisted medical staff by identifying this substance, he instead made no comment to the questions put to him in police interview, allowing the victim's health to further deteriorate."
He addedI am petrified that he will cause harm to my loved ones as a result of me assisting the police in his prosecution,
he saidAt no point in time was I ever under the impression that this person portraying to be a healthcare professional was in fact my partner at the time's son, Thomas,
he said