An Attempted Love Murder Using Flesh Eating Bacteria [Current Affairs]

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In this week's wild current affairs, a doctor in the UK has been accused of attempting to murder his mother's partner by injecting him with flesh-eating bacteria under the guise of a COVID vaccine. Current Affairs is Love Murder's show about the stories of love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right now. Sources: https://people.com/doctor-allegedly-injected-mother-s-partner-flesh-eating-bacteria-under-guise-covid-shot-8724092 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/07/gp-admits-attempted-of-mothers-partner-with-fake-covid-jab https://www.thedailybeast.com/family-doctor-admits-dressing-up-as-nurse-in-bizarre-covid-jab-murder-plot Find LOVE MURDER online: Website: lovemurder.love Instagram: @lovemurderpod Twitter: @lovemurderpod Facebook: LoveMrdrPod TikTok: @LoveMurderPod Patreon: /LoveMurderPod Credits: Love Murder is hosted by Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette, researched and written by Jessie Pray, produced by Nathaniel Whittemore and edited by Kyle Barbour-Hoffman

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Kern Affairs, our shorter length show about the stories of
0:11.4	Love gone fatally wrong that are in the news right this
0:14.4	very minute. Today we're diving deep into a disturbing case out of the UK involving
0:20.3	Dr Thomas Kwan, a 53-year-old GP accused of attempting to murder his mother's
0:25.8	partner in a dispute over inheritance.
0:29.5	The incident occurred on January 22nd, 2004 in Newcastle, England.
0:34.4	Dr. Kwan, who worked at a surgery in Sunderland and lived in Ingleby Barwick Teesside,
0:40.3	allegedly injected his mother's 72-year-old partner Patrick O'Hara with a substance
0:46.2	causing a rare and life-threatening flesh-eating disease called necrotizing facades.
0:52.2	Yes, truly this week's current affairs. called Necrotizing Deschitis.
0:52.7	Yes, truly this week's current affairs involves a flesh-eating virus.
0:57.2	This is not science fiction.
0:59.6	The motive behind this shocking act appears to be Kwan's obsession with money and his inheritance. The voting O'Hara in her will, allowing him to remain in her Newcastle house.
1:14.1	The property would only pass to her children upon O'Hara's death.
1:17.8	Prosecutor Peter Make Peace Casey described K-C's plan as audacious and stranger than fiction.
1:24.6	The doctor went to extraordinary lengths to prepare for and execute the attack.
1:29.2	Kwan's elaborate scheme involves sending two fake doctor's letters to O'Hara, stating he was
1:34.6	due for a home visit for his COVID-19 injection. On the day of the visit, Kwan checked
1:39.3	into a hotel under a false name at 2.45 in the morning, putting false registration plates on his car and
1:45.6	later headed to his mother's house posing as a community nurse.
1:49.3	Disguised with a mask and glasses, Kwan spent 45 minutes at the property carrying out medical tests before
1:55.6	administering what he claimed was a COVID-19 booster shot.
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