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00:00The arrest is the pivotal moment in any investigation.
00:13Stay where you are!
00:14If you get it wrong, then it's game over.
00:17Get in the ground now!
00:22Police officer with a taser!
00:24Taser, taser, taser!
00:30Taser, taser, taser!
00:44Everything they're doing is on body-worn video.
00:46Police!
00:48Everything they're doing will be examined by defence lawyers.
00:54They can't make any mistakes.
00:56I haven't done anything wrong!
01:003 people wanted in connection with the murder of Sara Sharif are believed to be on their way back to Britain.
01:14Her father, stepmother and uncle all fled the country after the 10-year-old was killed at her home in Surrey last month.
01:30When you're planning an arrest, the environment is going to be hugely important in terms of how safely it can be conducted.
01:42And probably one of the most challenging environments is going to be something like an aircraft.
01:46It's a very confined space where you've got chairs, a narrow aisle, so people can't move around freely.
01:54So imagine if somebody were to become violent, that's a very difficult place in order to manage that.
02:00They make their way through the aisles into business class and you can imagine if you're one of the other passengers and you're seeing all these police officers on board the plane wondering what's going on.
02:16It must have been a pretty scary moment for those people on the plane.
02:23If we were to take one individual person being arrested, you'd probably be talking about four or five officers at least.
02:34Well, we've got three here, all with the potential of causing trouble on this plane.
02:41Very quickly, they get an indication that they're going to be compliant.
02:46Are you looking for us? Yes.
02:48We are, yes.
02:50I think you're looking for us.
02:52We have three people who have been the subject of an international manhunt and they know that the game is up.
02:59They're fully expecting this and she says, here we are, you're looking for us.
03:04Where's your bag? Have you got a, uh, a cabin bag?
03:07Uh, he does.
03:08He does? Yeah.
03:10So which one is your bag?
03:12I don't have any bag.
03:13You have no bag, do you?
03:14Good one.
03:15We look over here, smoke his feet.
03:17They can't take what he says at face failure, the fact he's saying I haven't got a bag.
03:21When she said that he has, they will have to, for themselves, make sure he doesn't have a bag, make sure there's nothing on that plane that he's tried to hide or try to distance himself from.
03:34Were you in the middle seat?
03:35Yeah, just around the middle seat.
03:36Yeah.
03:37How have you done?
03:38Okay.
03:39Can you just check up in there for us, mate?
03:40A complicating factor here is the passengers are still on the plane, but there would have been an element of, let's make sure after everyone's got off, there's still nothing on there that could have been discarded.
03:49So the plane could be there for quite a while afterwards until the police are happy that we can release it, that there isn't any evidence on there that we're going to miss.
04:01The call came in at 2.47.
04:20Sorry, police, how can I help?
04:21Hello?
04:22Yes, hello?
04:23Is everything okay?
04:24Hello?
04:25Is everything okay?
04:27On the other end of the line was a man who sounded very distraught, very upset.
04:33I think that was a very interesting phrase.
04:51He said that he legally punished his daughter, that he did beat her, but he did it legally.
04:58I need you to take a breath because I cannot understand what you're saying, okay?
05:02Your daughter has died.
05:03I killed my daughter.
05:05I killed my daughter.
05:10Okay.
05:11Hello?
05:12Hello?
05:13Yes, hello?
05:14I'm going, please.
05:15I can't do the job.
05:16I'm on the road, please.
05:17I can't do the job.
05:18I'm on the road, please.
05:22So at this stage, in the operator's mind, the most important thing is we need to get the police
05:27there quickly because he may be mistaken, she might be alive, and we can save her.
05:34They get inside this property.
06:04This family home.
06:05Police, hello, anyone in?
06:07Do a search downstairs.
06:10No one to be seen.
06:11And then one of the officers starts making his way upstairs
06:16into one of the bedrooms.
06:18And in one of the bedrooms, there's a bunk bed
06:21and there is a sheet.
06:27And underneath that sheet was a ten-year-old girl.
06:31She wasn't sleeping.
06:32She was dead.
06:33I beat her up.
06:38It wasn't my chance to kill her, but I beat her up too much.
06:46The caller identified himself as Irfan Sharif
06:50and gave the operator the name of his victim.
06:53Sara Sharif.
06:55S-A-R-A.
06:57She's only ten years old.
06:59Like so.
07:00The officers who found Sara noted dozens of bruises on her body.
07:07They also recovered a note from her father from under her pillow.
07:11When did this happen?
07:22About 36 hours ago.
07:26This happened 36 hours ago?
07:29Yes.
07:29Police are hunting for three adults after the discovery of a ten-year-old girl's body in Surrey.
07:34Sara Sharif was found at her home in Woking on Thursday morning.
07:38Police are hunting for three adults after the discovery of a ten-year-old girl's body in Surrey.
07:58Sara Sharif was found at her home in Woking on Thursday morning following a call from her father.
08:05He's now gone missing along with her stepmother and uncle.
08:10As the search got underway, police began building up a picture of their chief suspect.
08:20Irfan Sharif had come to the UK from Pakistan.
08:24He'd come as a student and stayed here and then began working as a minicab driver.
08:30Now, in their investigation, police realised that he actually had a history of domestic violence.
08:36He had abused at least two of his former partners, and that was even before he met Sara's mother.
08:43Shortly after Sara's birth in 2013, social workers drew up a child protection plan for her.
08:51She later spent time in foster care.
08:55When her parents split in 2015, her mother won custody.
09:01But four years on, Sharif managed to get the decision reversed.
09:06In 2019, what is seen by many as an extraordinary decision,
09:12the court decided to give Irfan Sharif custody of Sara.
09:16Now, that is because he claimed that her mother had in fact been the one who was abusive towards her.
09:22That is something she has always denied, and there has never been a shred of evidence about that.
09:27By then, Sharif was living with his new partner, Beanish Batool, and their three other children.
09:38It was here in Surrey that Sara attended her new primary school.
09:42Her headteacher said that she was a very happy child.
09:51She loved her music, she played the guitar, she wanted to sing,
09:55she had dreams of going on to the X Factor and also being a ballet dancer.
10:01So there initially weren't any signs, really, from the school's point of view,
10:06that there was anything wrong with Sara.
10:09But behind the scenes, she was being subjected to the most horrific abuse.
10:13When Sara did begin presenting with injuries, her teachers raised it with Sharif.
10:26He responded with complaints that other children were bullying her because she was a Muslim.
10:32In April 2023, he said she would be homeschooled.
10:37From then, till her death four months later, Sara was never seen outside.
10:44It was a three-bedroom house, so not a big space for Irfan Sharif, Beanish Batool, Sara, her siblings.
10:54Also in that house, Sara's uncle, Faisal Malik, who had come over from Pakistan.
10:59And during these four months, it's very clear that the violence against Sara accelerated.
11:29Although doctors have yet to confirm the exact cause of death,
11:35an initial post-mortem found multiple injuries sustained over an extended period.
11:41Meanwhile, police have issued an urgent appeal to anyone who knows where the suspects may have gone.
11:49An important element in any murder investigation,
11:52especially when you're trying to find somebody, is to look at their phone records.
11:55What is really striking is she sounds completely calm
12:22and thinking that she's on the phone trying to book tickets to flee the country
12:26and Sara, her body, is lying upstairs and she had been murdered.
12:32And I think that is very, very chilling.
12:35Your travel dates, please.
12:37I leave as possible tomorrow.
12:41And return?
12:45Single.
12:52A trawl of CCTV at Heathrow confirmed that the family had boarded a flight to the Pakistani capital.
13:01The hunt for Sara's killers was now international.
13:06The UK doesn't have an extradition treaty with Pakistan.
13:10So this would have been a real moment of tension for the investigating officers
13:14and the real fear that are they going to flee justice
13:17and we're never going to be able to get them back for the crimes that they're committed.
13:20The rest of Irfan Sharif and his two fellow suspects,
13:48Beanish Batul and Faisal Malik, came after a manhunt lasting nearly five weeks.
13:54And it all started with his 999 call.
13:59So where are you?
14:01I cannot give more detail. I promise I'll come back.
14:05I'll find, I'll face the distance.
14:10OK. Like, give me a landmark, give me anything.
14:13Where are you? Do you know what town you're in?
14:15I don't know.
14:30Within days of the 999 call, detectives knew Sharif had flown to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.
14:40Soon afterwards, the authorities there tracked him down to Jalun.
14:45A town 70 miles south.
14:49The police in Pakistan were as helpful as they could be and they went out of their way when they essentially didn't have to.
14:56There was nothing compelling them to help the police over here.
14:59But professionally, that's what they chose to do.
15:03We know that they carried out a number of raids on properties connected to Irfan Sharif, Beanish Batul, the family over in Pakistan.
15:13And various family members were also questioned as well as they tried to locate the three of them.
15:20They were putting a lot of pressure on them.
15:22They really wanted to find them and I think that pressure was really growing on them and that is why they decided to release this extraordinary video.
15:30All of our family members have gone into hiding as everyone is scared for their safety.
15:36Irfan Sharif really takes a back seat.
15:47He's sitting back.
15:49He's not speaking.
15:50Beanish Batul is doing all of the talking.
15:53And in that video, it was really, really striking that they mentioned Sarah just once.
15:58Firstly, I would like to talk about Sarah.
16:01Sarah's death was an incident.
16:04They are extremely careful and keep what they say about Sarah to a minimum because it's clear that they know that when they eventually got back to the UK that they will have a lot of questions to answer.
16:18Our family in Pakistan are severely affected by all that is going on.
16:22They are harassing my extended family.
16:24They came across as very cold, calculated.
16:29Bear in mind that Irfan Sharif had admitted in his phone call to killing his daughter.
16:35There they were in this video, not talking about Sarah, but are talking about themselves and about how they were fearing for their own lives.
16:42And I think that was quite extraordinary.
16:44My main concern is that the Pakistani police will torture or kill us.
16:48That is why we have gone into hiding.
16:54Shortly after the video was posted to the media, police found Sharif's other children at a house owned by his father.
17:04Only then, with the net closing in, did he, his partner Batul and brother Malik decide to fly back to Britain, where officers from the Surrey investigation team were waiting.
17:16The question that I often used to get asked when I was dealing with incidents similar to this, where you're dealing with the people that have committed those crimes.
17:34How do you act professionally, how do you act professionally, how do you act professionally, how do you not let your own emotions become a factor?
17:43Well, the simple answer is you don't.
17:46A lot of the officers on that plane would be parents themselves.
17:48They would be aware of why they're there.
17:52They would be aware of just the horrific injuries that were being caused to Sarah.
17:56But what they wouldn't do is allow themselves to be affected in a way that could hinder the investigation.
18:07They would know that everything they're doing is on body-worn video.
18:11Everything they're doing would be examined by defence lawyers and it could play out at court.
18:17They do not want to be responsible for these people that have committed this crime to get off at court because of the way they've acted.
18:24So what you do is you turn those feelings that you're a human being, you're going to have those feelings, you're going to have those feelings of disgust, of almost hatred of these people because of the acts they've done.
18:45But you turn that into your motivation for making sure you do a right job and you get justice for Sarah.
18:50So, the time is 1947 hours.
18:54The body of Sarah Sharif was discovered on the 10th of August 2023 on Hammond Road in Horsall.
19:01On the injuries sustained by her and the investigation conducted, you are suspected of her murder.
19:06You are therefore arrested for murder of Sarah Sharif.
19:10You do not have to say anything, but it may harm me defence.
19:12Do not mention my question.
19:14Something which you later are in court.
19:15Any of you say maybe they never, do you only someone I think?
19:18Yes.
19:19OK.
19:35What's your understanding of murder?
19:39Killing someone?
19:40So, this is Bina Shpatool being interviewed by officers after being arrested and throughout the interview she replies no comment.
19:50What happened to Sarah?
19:52No comment.
19:54Who did that to Sarah?
19:55No comment.
19:56Now, she's obviously got a right to say no comment and it may be that she had that legal advice, but she is Sarah's stepmother and somebody who was there to care and protect for her.
20:09No comment.
20:10Do you love Sarah?
20:11No comment.
20:13It's quite hard to watch this because there is no emotion whatsoever.
20:17Did you care about her at all?
20:19No comment.
20:20She really does give the impression that she didn't care for Sarah, that she wasn't in any way connected to her and comes across very cold and uncaring, really.
20:30During the trial, the jury heard evidence that Sarah had been systematically abused for at least two years before her death.
20:53Among the evidence, messages from Batool to her sister.
20:58I was in the courtroom when the pathologist was giving evidence about Sarah's injuries.
21:19I just remember taking notes and thinking it can't get any worse and it got worse and worse and worse.
21:25It's unimaginable to put yourself in Sarah's position for those last months of her life.
21:42She'd been beaten with a metal pole, beaten with a cricket bat.
21:50She'd been bitten.
21:52She'd been burnt.
21:54She'd been held down and had an iron, a hot iron, pressed into her buttocks.
22:02The pain that this young girl had gone through is unbearable to think about.
22:07The jury also heard a harrowing account of what happened on August 8th, 2023, and the last hours of Sarah's life.
22:21On the day that Sarah died, Batool was at home.
22:26She makes phone calls to Irfan Sharif and she asks him to go home because Sarah was seriously ill at that point.
22:35Before he goes home, he stops off at a shop and he's seen on CCTV making the stop at a shop near his house.
22:43He then makes his way back home and he told the court that he thought that Sarah was playing around, messing around, pretending that she was unwell.
22:55So here we have a little girl who's unwell, who should be being cared for by her father, somebody who should be doing something to try and help her.
23:08But instead, what Sharif does is he beats her, beats her around her abdomen with a metal pole, hits her across her head, causing a wound to her head.
23:18So these are the last things that Sarah experiences in her life, rather than her father caring for her, he's beating her.
23:27Despite Sharif claiming Sarah's death was unintentional, the jury found him guilty of murder.
23:48He was jailed for life, with a minimum of 40 years.
23:52Batool, who had encouraged and taken part in the abuse, was convicted of the same offence and received a minimum of 33 years.
24:02Malik, who was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child, was jailed for 16 years.
24:11Summing up, the judge said Sarah was a victim of torture.
24:14When you see that video of Sarah playing the guitar, singing, happy, innocent little girl,
24:28it is really difficult to believe the horror of what she was enduring at home.
24:36And I think that does show her resilience, her strength, that she was fighting, really, until her body really couldn't take any more.
24:48The details of what she had to endure will stay with me forever.
25:06The early morning rage, the six o'clock knock, sometimes it would be called, is a really common tactic that we use.
25:35Do you mind if we come in for a second, please?
25:37Yes.
25:39The huge advantage is that the suspect or the person of interest is going to be in.
25:44You know, it's too early to be going to work, it's too early to be doing the school run, it's too early to go to the shops, it's too early to be doing anything.
25:50OK. We have you to talk in here?
25:53I think as well, the police officers that go into these early morning raids would have been up for a good few hours.
25:58So they've had to get to work, they've been briefed, they've had coffees, probably lots of coffee, breakfast.
26:03They're driving there, they've got big adrenaline, and the advantage of that over someone who's just woken up and half asleep is vast.
26:12Sir, I can't. You might as well just stay standing for us if you don't mind, please.
26:16The quiet village of Ingleby Barwick, home to 52-year-old Dr. Thomas Kwan.
26:29For years, he's been a respected family GP with an unblemished reputation.
26:34But now, he's at the top of the police wanted list, suspected of using his medical skills and knowledge to try and kill a man.
26:44He seems quite calm and he seems, in the video and the footage, cooperative.
26:55You know, I think the officers were happy with the way he was behaving, he certainly wasn't, you know, shoved in handcuffs and thrown to the floor.
27:17You know, he was speaking to them, as he should.
27:20And then, of course, they would thrown a curveball that they weren't expecting.
27:27Whilst in the house, officers made an alarming discovery.
27:32A virtual homemade laboratory of chemicals.
27:36Immediately, the sleepy suburb became a hazardous crime scene.
27:41Residents at an estate near Stockton-on-Tees have been told to stay indoors and close their windows this morning.
27:50It follows the discovery of unknown toxic substances at a house in Ingleby Barwick.
27:56Police, fire and ambulance crews are all currently at the scene and warning the public to stay away.
28:06They were there for days.
28:07There were people in hazmat suits and emergency services were there, trying to get to the bottom of exactly what he had in the property.
28:19The neighbours must have been very concerned.
28:22They must have been very worried about what they were going to discover.
28:25In the midst of the chaos and confusion, the officers who raised the alarm.
28:37They've still got a job to do, they've still got to arrest him, but they've also now got a dangerous situation.
28:42They're probably considering, you know, who else is in the house that could be hurt, the neighbours, the local surrounding area.
28:48They're, you know, their personal safety.
28:49They're not going to be wearing the kit that they need to be wearing in this scenario.
28:54You know, is this house going to blow up at any minute?
28:56Who knows?
28:58So their brains are obviously fully engaged in two parts here.
29:02The arrest that they need to obviously conduct and do the job that they've gone there to do.
29:06But also now they've got a whole full operation of a possible chemical explosion.
29:12An emergency admission to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.
29:30A patient, Patrick O'Hara, has complained of searing pain in his left arm.
29:35Initially, medics thought that it was just a reaction to a Covid jab, which can sometimes happen.
29:43He was sent home, he was given painkillers and antibiotics, and that was hoped, presumably, that that would solve the issue.
29:53Remarkably, he managed to sleep that night, but the next morning he woke up and his arm was blistered, it was discoloured and he was in absolute agony.
30:01After a second hospital admission, doctors rushed their patient to intensive care.
30:10Here, they made a startling diagnosis.
30:15He was infected with the so-called flesh-eating bug, necrotising fasciitis.
30:20Necrotising fasciitis is a secondary bacterial infection, which can appear after extensive tissue damage.
30:33The problem is, with the tissue damage generating dead cells, those dead cells can serve as breeding ground for different types of bacteria.
30:42That can then enhance the tissue damage that's already there, and depending on the development of that infection, they can reach the bloodstream, leading to sepsis, which can be fatal.
30:56Over the next five days, surgeons performed three emergency operations, cutting away a section of Mr. O'Hara's upper arm.
31:13To identify what had caused the infection, they even called in government chemical weapons inspectors for help.
31:20They believed it was iodomethane, a pesticide ingredient not approved for use in the UK.
31:31Iodomethane is highly toxic. It can cause extensive tissue damage.
31:36In this specific case, because medical treatment resulted in the amputation of the damaged tissue, the victim was able to survive.
31:47But these are life-changing injuries.
31:51Patrick O'Hara was 72 and shared a home with Thomas Kwan's mother, Jenny.
31:57When doctors alerted police to the poisoning, he told them about a COVID booster injection he'd received shortly before falling ill.
32:07It followed two letters from the community-associated nursing team, offering him a home visit.
32:14There was an NHS logo on the letters.
32:22There were hyperlinks, there was a QR code on one of them.
32:25There was even data protection warnings in the letters.
32:29There was no reason to believe that it was anything other than a genuine offer from the NHS.
32:34After accepting the invitation, Mr O'Hara received an early morning visit from a man identifying himself as a male nurse.
32:51He asked Mr O'Hara to fill out a questionnaire about his health.
32:56He offers him a blood test, offered him a urine test as well.
33:00So he's carrying out health checks over a remarkably long time.
33:07Eventually, the point comes where he offers Mr O'Hara a COVID booster jab and says it's necessary because of his age.
33:14It's at this point that he puts the injection in Mr O'Hara's arm.
33:27After hearing the story, police quickly established that the letters sent to Mr O'Hara, supposedly by the NHS, were fake.
33:36They now believed that instead of receiving the COVID vaccine, he'd been injected with a toxic substance.
33:44The race was now on to unmask the man who had turned up at his home with the syringe.
33:50And a bogus health service ID badge bearing the name Nurse Raj Patel.
33:56As Patrick O'Hara fought for his life in hospital, detectives tried to identify anyone who may have held a grudge against him.
34:17Time and again, the same name came up.
34:22His partner's son, Thomas Kwan.
34:25Thomas Kwan was a very well-educated, intelligent man.
34:30He was originally from Hong Kong, but came to the UK as a student to study and obviously done very well.
34:36You know, he went to medical school, became a doctor, married.
34:39He had a child, you know, he's got it all going for him.
34:42However, he obviously has a very dark side, a demon side where he has obsessions and it would appear one of his obsessions was money.
34:49Although earning around £140,000 a year from his GP's practice in Sunderland, Kwan became embroiled in a bitter financial dispute with his mother.
35:03She'd started a relationship with Mr O'Hara in 2003, when he moved into her house in the centre of Newcastle.
35:14As her eldest son, Kwan believed the property would become his on her death.
35:21But then he made a new discovery.
35:33Kwan found out that his mother's will said that if she died before her partner, that Mr O'Hara would be allowed to stay in the property until he died.
35:45So essentially, Kwan would be delayed in inheriting his mother's house.
35:49It wasn't that he wasn't ever going to get his hands on that.
35:52It was just that he would have to wait until Patrick O'Hara died.
35:55And that's just something he wasn't prepared to do.
35:58He puts pressure on her and he voices that he's not happy with this arrangement.
36:02He's telling her that she should change it back, that he thinks that he should get it all immediately at the moment she's no longer with us.
36:09And he's really, really putting it on her.
36:10You know, this is an older lady.
36:12She's in her, you know, her last years of her life.
36:14Why would you do that to her?
36:15But he doesn't think like that.
36:24Next, Kwan bombarded his mother with messages telling her to reconsider her decision.
36:32He secretly installed spyware on her laptop so he could monitor all her financial dealings.
36:39When he realised she wouldn't change the will, he became threatening.
36:43He was escalating.
36:47There was a report of him turning up at her house, barging his way in, shouting, making her feel fearful to the point that she actually rang the police on her own son.
36:56The police arrived at the house, but ultimately, Mr O'Hara and his mum decided not to go through with any kind of criminal complaint.
37:07They were obviously worried about his career as a GP and didn't want to jeopardise that, which you can imagine every mother would probably do similarly.
37:14So he ended up being let go without any kind of criminal proceedings against him.
37:19But he was warned about his future behaviour.
37:23The financial feud was just one reason for the police to be suspicious of Kwan.
37:29Early in the investigation, his mother noted how the man who gave the injection had the same height and build.
37:37After recovering surveillance footage of that same man approaching the house, officers could see the resemblance for themselves.
37:44Kwan was obviously now a suspect.
37:51He's a GP, he has medical knowledge.
37:53He's obviously very angry with his mother and her partner.
37:56The nurse that has gone to administer this vaccine is a resemblance of Kwan.
38:00His own mother has said it's a resemblance.
38:03And there's also a clear and consistent CCTV.
38:06You're able to follow his every single move.
38:09By using the timestamp and location of this CCTV clip, detectives were able to recover more footage, piecing together each stage of the crime, tracking the perpetrator back home and unmasking him as Dr. Thomas Kwan.
38:29An early morning start, a 40-mile journey, and a driver determined to keep a low profile.
38:48When Kwan left his property, he looked at maps, you know, he looked at where there would be ANPR, CCTV.
38:55He took aerodes to avoid as much public camera as possible, and even went as far as putting false plates onto his car because he was that concerned.
39:10After an hour and a half on the road, Kwan arrives at his destination, a multi-storey car park.
39:18He unpacks his Toyota Yaris, then climbs the stairs to the reception of the Premier Inn Hotel, where he checks in under the name John Chan.
39:29The following morning, Kwan emerges from his room wearing a long coat, a woolly hat, tinted glasses, blue surgical gloves, and a clinical mask.
39:53With his face covered, he then makes the short walk to his mother's house, where, in a fake Asian accent, he'll introduce himself as nurse Raj Patel, and show his fake ID badge.
40:07The disguise that Kwan had chosen, in all honesty, it's a little ridiculous, is my first opinion of it.
40:19Although he was meticulous with other areas of his planning, it just didn't look very convincing to me at all.
40:26But he obviously thought it worked, and it fooled the people that needed to be fooled.
40:30During their search of Kwan's property, police found the fake ID on his laptop.
40:53They also recovered an A to Z of chemicals.
40:56They found arsenic, which has been used as a poison for centuries.
41:04They found sulfuric acid, which is a highly corrosive acid, and can also be made to produce and to transform other substances.
41:11And they also found the ingredients to purify and produce ricin, which can also be used in terrorist attacks.
41:18But the most damning discovery was a tube containing iodomethane, the same substance used to poison Patrick O'Hara.
41:30Analysis of Kwan's computer showed he'd searched for information on the chemical 97 times over the past year.
41:37I'm arresting you for attempted murder and administering a poison or noxious substance,
41:48communal section 23 of the offences against the persons Act 1861.
41:52Now, both of those offences occurred in Newcastle-upontain.
41:54At his trial, Kwan denied the charge of attempted murder.
42:06But shortly after the jury was sworn in, there was a dramatic development.
42:11Kwan pleaded guilty after he heard the weight of evidence against him.
42:16The prosecution opened their case, and it was at that point where he realised the game was up.
42:21There was no denying it anymore, and he threw in the towel, essentially because he knew he couldn't get away with this one.
42:28A GP has been jailed for 31 years for what a judge described as a plot to kill a man in plain sight.
42:37Thomas Kwan injected his mother's partner with a poisonous chemical in a bid to stop him benefiting from her will.
42:45His victim told the court the murder attempt had left him a shell of an individual.
42:50First of all, I'd like to thank the judge for that sentencing, and I think justice has been doing today.
42:54Secondly, I'd like to thank the NHS, especially the RVI hospital.
42:59Without this, I don't think I would have survived.
43:03Mr O'Hara really thought that he was going to die at several points during his ordeal.
43:08He has PTSD, and his relationship with Kwan's mother is over.
43:15And he's been left with visible scars on his body that he sees every time he gets changed.
43:20He has to live with the knowledge that somebody who he trusted and would have thought of as a caring person has gone out to try and kill him.
43:47Transcription by CastingWords
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