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00:00The arrest is the pivotal moment in any investigation.
00:07If you get it wrong, then it's game over.
00:17Police officer with a taser.
00:19Taser, taser, taser!
00:30Everything they're doing is on body-worn video.
00:41Police!
00:43Everything they're doing will be examined by defence lawyers.
00:47They can't make any mistakes.
00:51I haven't done anything wrong!
01:00Three people wanted in connection with the murder of Sara Sharif
01:16are believed to be on their way back to Britain.
01:19Her father, stepmother and uncle all fled the country
01:23after the ten-year-old was killed at her home in Surrey last month.
01:27When you're planning an arrest,
01:31the environment is going to be hugely important
01:33in terms of how safely it can be conducted.
01:36And probably one of the most challenging environments
01:39is going to be something like an aircraft.
01:42It's a very confined space where you've got chairs, a narrow aisle,
01:47so people can't move around freely.
01:49So imagine if somebody were to become violent,
01:52that's a very difficult place in order to manage that.
01:57They make their way through the aisles into business class,
02:03and you can imagine if you're one of the other passengers
02:06and you're seeing all these police officers on board the plane
02:10wondering what's going on.
02:12It must have been a pretty scary moment for those people on the plane.
02:16If we were to take one individual person being arrested,
02:24you'd probably be talking about four or five officers at least.
02:28But we've got three here,
02:30all with the potential of causing trouble on this plane.
02:34Very quickly, they get an indication that they're going to be compliant.
02:39I think they're looking for us.
02:43We are, yes.
02:44I think you're looking for us.
02:46We have three people who have been the subject of an international manhunt,
02:51and they know that the game is up.
02:54They're fully expecting this.
02:56And she says,
02:57here we are.
02:58You're looking for us.
02:59Where's your bag?
03:00Have you got a...
03:01I can have his bag.
03:02He does.
03:03He does?
03:04Yeah.
03:05Which one is your bag?
03:07I don't have any bag.
03:08You have no bag.
03:09No.
03:10Okay.
03:11Will you look over here?
03:12Can you see him?
03:13They can't take what he says at face value.
03:15The fact he's saying,
03:16I haven't got a bag.
03:17When she said that he has,
03:19they will have to, for themselves,
03:21make sure he doesn't have a bag.
03:23Make sure there's nothing on that plane
03:25that he's tried to hide or try to distance himself from.
03:29Were you in the middle seat?
03:30Yeah.
03:31Just around the middle seat.
03:32Yeah.
03:33Okay.
03:34Can you check over there first?
03:35A complicating factor here is the passengers are still on the plane.
03:38But there would have been an element of,
03:40let's make sure after everyone's got off,
03:42there's still nothing on there
03:43that could have been discarded.
03:44So the plane could be there for quite a while afterwards
03:47until the police are happy that we can release it,
03:50that there isn't any evidence on there that we're going to miss.
04:08The call came in at 2.47.
04:16Sorry, police, how can I help?
04:18Hello?
04:19Yes, hello.
04:20Is everything okay?
04:21Hello, community.
04:22On the other end of the line was a man who sounded very distraught,
04:27very upset.
04:28Nothing is okay.
04:29Can you write on my address, please?
04:31I've been legally punished my daughter and she died.
04:36I am left with a panic.
04:39God, she is allowed at home.
04:41I think that was a very interesting phrase.
04:46He said that he legally punished his daughter,
04:50that he did beat her, but he did it legally.
04:53I need you to take a breath because I cannot understand
04:55what you're saying, okay?
04:57Your daughter has died.
04:58I killed my daughter.
05:00I killed my daughter.
05:01I killed my daughter.
05:05Okay.
05:06Hello.
05:07Hello.
05:08Yes, hello.
05:09I can't be joking.
05:11I'm a drought, please.
05:17So at this stage in the operator's mind,
05:19the most important thing is we need to get police there quickly
05:23because he may be mistaken, she might be alive.
05:27and we can save her.
05:33Loose it.
05:34How the updates please.
05:362-2, sir.
05:49Police.
05:51Police.
05:52Police!
05:57They get inside this property, this family home.
06:00Police, hello, anyone in?
06:03Do a search downstairs, no-one to be seen.
06:07And then one of the officers starts making his way upstairs
06:12into one of the bedrooms.
06:14And in one of the bedrooms, there's a bunk bed
06:17and there is a sheet.
06:22And underneath that sheet was a ten-year-old girl.
06:26She wasn't sleeping, she was dead.
06:41The caller identified himself as Irfan Sharif
06:45and gave the operator the name of his victim.
06:52The officers who found Sara noted dozens of bruises on her body.
07:02They also recovered a note from her father from under her pillow.
07:07When did this happen?
07:18About 36 hours ago.
07:20This happened 36 hours ago?
07:24Yes.
07:26Where are you right now?
07:30I need to know where you are.
07:32Police are hunting for three adults
07:50after the discovery of a ten-year-old girl's body in Surrey.
07:54Sara Sharif was found at her home in Woking on Thursday morning
07:59following a call from her father.
08:01He's now gone missing along with her stepmother and uncle.
08:09As the search got underway, police began building up a picture
08:13of their chief suspect.
08:15Irfan Sharif had come to the UK from Pakistan.
08:19He'd come as a student and stayed here
08:22and then began working as a minicab driver.
08:25Now, in their investigation, police realised
08:27that he actually had a history of domestic violence.
08:31He had abused at least two of his former partners
08:34and that was even before he met Sara's mother.
08:36Shortly after Sara's birth in 2013, social workers drew up
08:43a child protection plan for her.
08:46She later spent time in foster care.
08:50When her parents split in 2015, her mother won custody.
08:55But four years on, Sharif managed to get the decision reversed.
09:01In 2019, what is seen by many as an extraordinary
09:05decision, the court decided to give Irfan Sharif custody of Sara.
09:11Now, that is because he claimed that her mother
09:14had in fact been the one who was abusive towards her.
09:17That is something she has always denied
09:19and there has never been a shred of evidence about that.
09:24By then, Sharif was living with his new partner,
09:27Beanish Batool, and their three other children.
09:30It was here in Surrey that Sara attended her new primary school.
09:43Her head teacher said that she was a very happy child.
09:46She loved her music, she played the guitar, she wanted to sing,
09:50she had dreams of going on to the X Factor and also being a ballet dancer.
09:56So there initially weren't any signs, really, from the school's point of view,
10:01that there was anything wrong with Sara.
10:03But behind the scenes, she was being subjected to the most horrific abuse.
10:08When Sara did begin presenting with injuries, her teachers raised it with Sharif.
10:21He responded with complaints that other children were bullying her
10:25because she was a Muslim.
10:27In April 2023, he said she would be homeschooled.
10:32From then, till her death four months later, Sara was never seen outside.
10:41It was a three-bedroom house, so not a big space for Irfan Sharif,
10:46Beanish Batool, Sara, her siblings.
10:49Also in that house, Sara's uncle, Faisal Malik, who had come over from Pakistan.
10:55And during these four months, it's very clear that the violence against Sara accelerated.
11:02I think she was naughty over the last three, four weeks,
11:07and I was giving her for the stress that she to sort her out.
11:11And she just, I'm a cruel father.
11:15She didn't leave her for the moment.
11:26Although doctors have yet to confirm the exact cause of death,
11:30an initial post-mortem found multiple injuries sustained over an extended period.
11:36Meanwhile, police have issued an urgent appeal
11:38to anyone who knows where the suspects may have gone.
11:45An important element in any murder investigation,
11:47especially when you're trying to find somebody,
11:49is to look at their phone records.
11:51And the phone records showed that Batal had contacted a travel agent.
11:55Welcome to travel. How may hell?
11:57And there was actually a recording of the call
12:00so they could listen to it and hear her demeanour.
12:03Hi there. I want you to know that you need to go to Pakistan.
12:07All right.
12:08So where in Pakistan do you want to go, ma'am?
12:11Um, Islamabad.
12:12What is really striking is she sounds completely calm
12:17and thinking that she's on the phone
12:19trying to book tickets to flee the country
12:21and Sara, her body, is lying upstairs and she had been murdered.
12:27And I think that is very, very chilling.
12:30Your travel dates, please.
12:32Um, at least as possible tomorrow.
12:35OK, thank you.
12:36And return?
12:38Um, single.
12:41A trawl of CCTV at Heathrow confirmed that the family had boarded a flight
12:54to the Pakistani capital.
12:56The hunt for Sara's killers was now international.
13:00The UK doesn't have an extradition treaty with Pakistan.
13:05So this would have been a real moment of tension
13:07for the investigating officers
13:09and the real fear that are they going to flee justice
13:12and we're never going to be able to get them back
13:14for the crimes that they've committed.
13:15The arrest of Irfan Sharif and his two fellow suspects,
13:29Binish Batool and Faisal Malik, came after a manhunt lasting nearly five weeks.
13:49And it all started with his 999 call.
13:54So where are you?
13:56I cannot give more detail.
13:58I promise I'll come back.
14:00I'll find, I'll face the justice.
14:05OK.
14:06Like, give me a landmark, give me anything.
14:08Where are you?
14:09Do you know what town you're in?
14:10I don't know.
14:25Within days of the 999 call,
14:28detectives knew Sharif had flown to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.
14:35Soon afterwards, the authorities there tracked him down to Jalun.
14:40A town 70 miles south.
14:44The police in Pakistan were as helpful as they could be
14:48and they went out of their way when they essentially didn't have to.
14:51There was nothing compelling them to help the police over here,
14:55but professionally, that's what they chose to do.
14:59We know that they carried out a number of raids on properties
15:03connected to Irfan Sharif, Binish Batool, the family over in Pakistan
15:08and various family members were also questioned as well
15:12as they tried to locate the three of them.
15:15They were putting a lot of pressure on them.
15:18They really wanted to find them.
15:20And I think that pressure was really growing on them
15:22and that is why they decided to release this extraordinary video.
15:25All of our family members have gone into hiding
15:29as everyone is scared for their safety.
15:40Irfan Sharif really takes a back seat.
15:43He's sitting back.
15:44He's not speaking.
15:45Binish Batool is doing all of the talking.
15:48And in that video, it was really, really striking
15:51that they mentioned Sara just once.
15:54Firstly, I would like to talk about Sara.
15:56Sara's death was an incident.
15:59They are extremely careful
16:01and keep what they say about Sara to a minimum
16:05because it's clear that they know
16:08that when they eventually got back to the UK
16:10that they will have a lot of questions to answer.
16:13Our family in Pakistan are severely affected by all that is going on.
16:17They are harassing my extended family.
16:19They came across as very cold, calculated.
16:24Bear in mind that Irfan Sharif
16:26had admitted in his phone call to killing his daughter.
16:30There they were in this video,
16:32not talking about Sara,
16:33but are talking about themselves
16:34and about how they were fearing for their own lives.
16:37And I think that was quite extraordinary.
16:39My main concern is that the Pakistani police
16:42will torture or kill us.
16:43That is why we have gone into hiding.
16:47I think that's why we have gone into hiding.
16:49I think that's why we have gone into hiding.
16:50Shortly after the video was posted to the media,
16:53police found Sharif's other children
16:55at a house owned by his father.
16:59Only then, with the net closing in,
17:02did he, his partner Batul and brother Malik,
17:05decide to fly back to Britain,
17:07where officers from the Surrey Investigation Team
17:10were waiting.
17:11The question that I often used to get asked
17:22when I was dealing with incidents similar to this,
17:25where you're dealing with the people
17:27that have committed those crimes,
17:29how do you act professionally?
17:32How do you not let your own emotions
17:34become a factor?
17:37Well, the simple answer is you don't.
17:41A lot of the officers on that plane
17:42would be parents themselves.
17:43They would be aware of why they're there.
17:47They would be aware of just the horrific injuries
17:50that were being caused to Sarah.
17:52But what they wouldn't do
17:54is allow themselves to be affected
17:56in a way that could hinder the investigation.
17:59They would know that everything they're doing
18:04is on body-worn video.
18:06Everything they're doing
18:07would be examined by defence lawyers
18:09and it could play out at court.
18:12They do not want to be responsible
18:14for these people that have committed this crime
18:16to get off at court
18:17because of the way they've acted.
18:21Yeah, could you just confirm your name for me, please, sir?
18:23Yeah, Woodpan Sharif.
18:25Sharif.
18:26Yeah, Woodpan Sharif.
18:27So what you do is you turn those feelings
18:31that you're a human being,
18:32you're going to have those feelings,
18:33you're going to have those feelings of disgust,
18:35of almost hatred of these people
18:37because of the acts they've done,
18:39but you turn that into your motivation
18:42for making sure you do a right job
18:44and you get justice for Sarah.
18:46So, the time is 19.47 hours.
18:49The body of Sarah Sharif
18:50was discovered on the 10th of August, 2023
18:53on Hammond Road in Horsall.
18:56On the injuries sustained by her
18:57and the investigation conducted,
18:59you are suspected of her murder.
19:01You are therefore arrested
19:02for murder of Sarah Sharif.
19:05You do not have to say anything,
19:06but it may harm me defence.
19:07You do not mention my question
19:08something which you may should be on in court.
19:11And you do say maybe they will never be.
19:12Do you only someone I mean?
19:14Yeah.
19:14What's your understanding of murder?
19:34Killing someone.
19:37So, this is Bina Shpatul
19:38being interviewed by officers
19:40after being arrested
19:42and throughout the interview,
19:43she replies, no comment.
19:46What happened to Sarah?
19:47No comment.
19:49Who did that to Sarah?
19:50No comment.
19:51Now, she's obviously got a right
19:53to say no comment
19:54and it may be that she had that legal advice,
19:57but she is Sarah's stepmother
20:00and somebody who was there
20:02to care and protect for her.
20:04No comment.
20:05Do you love Sarah?
20:06No comment.
20:08It's quite hard to watch this
20:09because there is no emotion whatsoever.
20:12Did you care about her at all?
20:14No comment.
20:15She really does give the impression
20:18that she didn't care for Sarah,
20:20that she wasn't in any way connected to her
20:22and comes across very cold
20:24and uncaring, really.
20:25During the trial,
20:42the jury heard evidence
20:43that Sarah had been systematically abused
20:46for at least two years
20:47before her death.
20:50Among the evidence,
20:52messages from Batul to her sister.
20:55I was in the courtroom
21:08when the pathologist
21:10was giving evidence
21:11about Sarah's injuries.
21:14I just remember taking notes
21:16and thinking it can't get any worse
21:18and it got worse and worse and worse.
21:20It's unimaginable
21:31to put yourself in Sarah's position
21:34for those last months of her life.
21:38She'd been beaten with a metal pole,
21:42beaten with a cricket bat.
21:45She'd been bitten.
21:46She'd been burnt.
21:49She'd been held down
21:50and had an iron,
21:52a hot iron,
21:55pressed into her buttocks.
21:58The pain that this young girl
22:00had gone through
22:00is unbearable to think about.
22:02The jury also heard
22:09a harrowing account
22:10of what happened
22:11on August the 8th, 2023
22:13and the last hours
22:14of Sarah's life.
22:17On the day that Sarah died,
22:20Batul was at home.
22:21She makes phone calls
22:23to Irfan Sharif
22:24and she asks him to go home
22:26because Sarah was seriously ill
22:29at that point.
22:30And before he goes home,
22:32he stops off at a shop
22:33and he's seen on CCTV
22:35making the stop
22:36at a shop near his house.
22:38He then makes his way back home
22:40and he told the court
22:44that he thought that Sarah
22:45was playing around,
22:47messing around,
22:48pretending that she was unwell.
22:50So here we have a little girl
22:53who's unwell,
22:56who should be being cared for
22:58by her father.
23:00Somebody should be doing something
23:01to try and help her
23:03but instead,
23:04what Sharif does
23:05is he beats her,
23:07beats her around her abdomen
23:08with a metal pole,
23:10hits her across her head,
23:12causing a wound to her head.
23:13So these are the last things
23:14that Sarah experiences
23:17in her life
23:18rather than her father
23:20caring for her.
23:21He's beating her.
23:24I physically
23:25punished my daughter
23:26and she died.
23:28I laughed
23:29with a panic.
23:31God, she is allowed at home.
23:36Despite Sharif claiming
23:37Sarah's death
23:38was unintentional,
23:39the jury found him guilty
23:41of murder.
23:43He was jailed for life
23:45with a minimum of 40 years.
23:48Batool,
23:49who had encouraged
23:50and taken part in the abuse,
23:52was convicted
23:52of the same offence
23:53and received a minimum
23:55of 33 years.
23:58Malik,
23:58who was found guilty
23:59of causing
24:00or allowing the death
24:01of a child,
24:02was jailed for 16 years.
24:06Summing up,
24:07the judge said
24:08Sarah was a victim
24:09of torture.
24:15When you see that video
24:17of Sarah
24:18playing the guitar,
24:19singing,
24:21happy,
24:22innocent little girl,
24:23it is really difficult
24:26to believe
24:27the horror
24:28of what she was enduring
24:29at home.
24:33And I think
24:34that does show
24:35her resilience,
24:37her strength,
24:37that she was fighting,
24:39really,
24:40until her body
24:41really couldn't take
24:42any more.
24:43The details
24:45of what she
24:45had to endure
24:47will stay with me
24:49forever.
24:49You don't want to be
24:58the only girl
24:59to be
25:00the only girl
25:01to be
25:02you
25:02to be
25:03the only girl
25:04to be
25:04a woman
25:05to be
25:05a woman
25:06and the only girl
25:06to be
25:07a woman
25:07that she
25:07in the middle
25:08of the
25:09and the only girl
25:09to be
25:10And there we go. Dr Kwan? Yes. Dr Kwan, hello.
25:24Early morning rage, the six o'clock knock, sometimes it would be called, is a really common tactic that we use.
25:30Do you mind if we come in for a second, please? Yes. Thank you.
25:34The huge advantage is that the suspect or the person of interest is going to be in.
25:38You know, it's too early to be going to work. It's too early to be doing the school run.
25:42It's too early to go to the shops. It's too early to be doing anything.
25:46OK. We have you to talk in here?
25:48I think as well, the police officers that go into these early morning raids would have been up for a good few hours.
25:53So they've had to get to work. They've been briefed. They've had coffees, probably lots of coffee, breakfast.
25:59They're driving there. They've got big adrenaline.
26:01And the advantage of that over someone who's just woken up and half asleep is vast.
26:06OK, sir, I can't. You might as well just stay standing for us if you don't mind, please.
26:11The quiet village of Ingleby Barwick, home to 52-year-old Dr. Thomas Kwan.
26:24For years, he's been a respected family GP with an unblemished reputation.
26:29But 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.
26:39He seems quite calm and he seems, in the video and the footage, cooperative.
27:04You know, I think the officers were happy with the way he was behaving.
27:09He certainly wasn't, you know, shoved in handcuffs and thrown to the floor.
27:12You know, he was speaking to them as he should.
27:15And then, of course, they would throw in a curveball that they weren't expecting.
27:22Whilst in the house, officers made an alarming discovery.
27:27A virtual homemade laboratory of chemicals.
27:29Immediately, the sleepy suburb became a hazardous crime scene.
27:37Residents at an estate near Stockton-on-Tees have been told to stay indoors and close their windows this morning.
27:45It follows the discovery of unknown toxic substances at a house in Ingleby Barwick.
27:51Police, fire and ambulance crews are all currently at the scene and warning the public to stay away.
27:59They were there for days.
28:03There were people in hazmat suits and emergency services were there, trying to get to the bottom of exactly what he had in the property.
28:14The neighbours must have been very concerned.
28:17They must have been very worried about what they were going to discover.
28:20In the midst of the chaos and confusion, the officers who raised the alarm.
28:32They've still got a job to do, they've still got to arrest him, but they've also now got a dangerous situation.
28:37They're probably considering, you know, who else is in the house that could be hurt, the neighbours, the local surrounding area.
28:43They're, you know, their personal safety.
28:44They're not going to be wearing the kit that they need to be wearing in this scenario.
28:49You know, is this house going to blow up at any minute? Who knows?
28:53So their brains are obviously fully engaged in two parts here.
28:57The arrest that they need to obviously conduct and do the job that they've gone there to do.
29:01But also now they've got a whole full operation of a possible chemical explosion.
29:07An emergency admission to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.
29:25A patient, Patrick O'Hara, has complained of searing pain in his left arm.
29:30Initially, medics thought that it was just a reaction to a Covid jab, which can sometimes happen.
29:38He was sent home.
29:40He was given painkillers and antibiotics.
29:43And that was hoped, presumably, that that would solve the issue.
29:48Remarkably, he managed to sleep that night.
29:50But the next morning he woke up and his arm was blistered.
29:54It was discoloured and he was in absolute agony.
29:56After a second hospital admission, doctors rushed their patient to intensive care.
30:05Here, they made a startling diagnosis.
30:10He was infected with the so-called flesh-eating bug, necrotising fasciitis.
30:15Necrotising fasciitis is a secondary bacterial infection, which can appear after extensive tissue damage.
30:28The problem is with the tissue damage generating dead cells.
30:33Those dead cells can serve as breeding ground for different types of bacteria.
30:37That can then enhance the tissue damage that's already there.
30:45And depending on the development of that infection, they can reach the bloodstream, leading to sepsis, which can be fatal.
30:51Over the next five days, surgeons performed three emergency operations, cutting away a section of Mr. O'Hara's upper arm.
31:07To identify what had caused the infection, they even called in government chemical weapons inspectors for help.
31:16They believed it was iodomethane, a pesticide ingredient not approved for use in the UK.
31:24Iodomethane is highly toxic.
31:28It can cause extensive tissue damage.
31:31In this specific case, because medical treatment resulted in the amputation of the damaged tissue,
31:39the victim was able to survive.
31:42But these are life-changing injuries.
31:46Patrick O'Hara was 72 and shared a home with Thomas Kwan's mother, Jenny.
31:52When doctors alerted police to the poisoning, he told them about a Covid booster injection he'd received shortly before falling ill.
32:02It followed two letters from the community-associated nursing team, offering him a home visit.
32:13There was an NHS logo on the letters.
32:17There were hyperlinks.
32:18There was a QR code on one of them.
32:20There was even data protection warnings in the letters.
32:24There was no reason to believe that it was anything other than a genuine offer from the NHS.
32:29After accepting the invitation, Mr O'Hara received an early morning visit from a man identifying himself as a male nurse.
32:46He asked Mr O'Hara to fill out a questionnaire about his health.
32:51He offered him a blood test, offered him a urine test as well.
32:55So he's carrying out health checks over a remarkably long time.
32:59Eventually, the point comes where he offers Mr O'Hara a Covid booster jab and says it's necessary because of his age.
33:12It's at this point that he puts the injection in Mr O'Hara's arm.
33:16After hearing this story, police quickly established that the letters sent to Mr O'Hara, supposedly by the NHS, were fake.
33:31They now believed that instead of receiving the Covid vaccine, he'd been injected with a toxic substance.
33:40The race was now on to unmask the man who had turned up at his home with the syringe.
33:45And a bogus health service ID badge bearing the name Nurse Raj Patel.
33:51As Patrick O'Hara fought for his life in hospital, detectives tried to identify anyone who may have held a grudge against him.
34:13Time and again, the same name came up.
34:17His partner's son, Thomas Kwan.
34:21Thomas Kwan was a very well-educated, intelligent man.
34:25He was originally from Hong Kong, but came to the UK as a student to study.
34:30And obviously done very well, you know, he went to medical school, became a doctor, married.
34:34He had a child, you know, he's got it all going for him.
34:37However, he obviously has a very dark side, a demon side, where he has obsessions.
34:42And it would appear one of his obsessions was money.
34:44Although earning around £140,000 a year from his GP's practice in Sunderland,
34:55Kwan became embroiled in a bitter financial dispute with his mother.
34:58She'd started a relationship with Mr. O'Hara in 2003, when he moved into her house in the centre of Newcastle.
35:09As her eldest son, Kwan believed the property would become his on her death.
35:14But then he made a new discovery.
35:30Kwan found out that his mother's will said that if she died before her partner,
35:35that Mr. O'Hara would be allowed to stay in the property until he died.
35:40So essentially, Kwan would be delayed in inheriting his mother's house.
35:44It wasn't that he wasn't ever going to get his hands on that.
35:47It was just that he would have to wait until Patrick O'Hara died.
35:50And that's just something he wasn't prepared to do.
35:53He puts pressure on her and he voices that he's not happy with this arrangement.
35:57He's telling her that she should change it back,
35:59that he thinks that he should get it all immediately at the moment she's no longer with us.
36:03And he's really, really putting it on her.
36:05You know, this is an older lady.
36:07She's in her, you know, her last years of her life.
36:09Why would you do that to her?
36:10But he doesn't think like that.
36:19Next, Kwan bombarded his mother with messages telling her to reconsider her decision.
36:27He secretly installed spyware on her laptop
36:30so he could monitor all her financial dealings.
36:34When he realised she wouldn't change the will, he became threatening.
36:40He was escalating.
36:42There was a report of him turning up at her house,
36:45barging his way in, shouting,
36:47making her feel fearful to the point that she actually rang the police on her own son.
36:51The police arrived at the house but ultimately Mr O'Hara and his mum
36:58decided not to go through with any kind of criminal complaint.
37:02They were obviously worried about his career as a GP
37:04and didn't want to jeopardise that,
37:06which you can imagine every mother would probably do similarly.
37:09So he ended up being let go without any kind of criminal proceedings against him.
37:15But he was warned about his future behaviour.
37:16The financial feud was just one reason for the police to be suspicious of Kwan.
37:24Early in the investigation,
37:26his mother noted how the man who gave the injection
37:29had the same height and build.
37:32After recovering surveillance footage of that same man approaching the house,
37:37officers could see the resemblance for themselves.
37:39Kwan was obviously now a suspect.
37:46He's a GP, he has medical knowledge.
37:48He's obviously very angry with his mother and her partner.
37:51The nurse that has gone to administer this vaccine is a resemblance of Kwan.
37:55His own mother has said it's a resemblance.
37:58And there's also a clear and consistent CCTV.
38:01You're able to follow his every single move.
38:04By using the timestamp and location of this CCTV clip,
38:12detectives were able to recover more footage,
38:16piecing together each stage of the crime,
38:19tracking the perpetrator back home
38:21and unmasking him as Dr. Thomas Kwan.
38:24An early morning start,
38:37a 40-mile journey
38:38and a driver determined to keep a low profile.
38:44When Kwan left his property,
38:46he looked at maps, you know,
38:47he looked at where there would be ANPR CCTV.
38:49He took A-ROADS to avoid as much public camera as possible
38:54and even went as far as putting false plates onto his car
38:58because he was that concerned.
39:05After an hour and a half on the road,
39:07Kwan arrives at his destination,
39:10a multi-storey car park.
39:11He unpacks his Toyota Yaris,
39:16then climbs the stairs to the reception of the Premier Inn Hotel,
39:20where he checks in under the name John Chan.
39:24The following morning,
39:39Kwan emerges from his room
39:41wearing a long coat,
39:43a woolly hat,
39:44tinted glasses,
39:45blue surgical gloves
39:46and a clinical mask.
39:49With his face covered,
39:51he then makes the short walk to his mother's house,
39:54where,
39:54in a fake Asian accent,
39:57he'll introduce himself as Nurse Raj Patel
39:59and show his fake ID badge.
40:06The disguise that Kwan had chosen,
40:09in all honesty,
40:10it's a little ridiculous,
40:12is my first opinion of it.
40:14Although he was meticulous with other areas of his planning,
40:17it just didn't look very convincing to me at all.
40:20But he obviously thought it worked,
40:22and it fooled the people that needed to be fooled.
40:25During their search of Kwan's property,
40:45police found the fake ID on his laptop.
40:48They also recovered an A to Z of chemicals.
40:51They found arsenic,
40:54which has been used as a poison for centuries.
40:59They found sulfuric acid,
41:01which is a highly corrosive acid,
41:03and can also be made to produce
41:04and to transform other substances.
41:06And they also found the ingredients
41:08to purify and produce ricin,
41:10which can also be used in terrorist attacks.
41:13But the most damning discovery
41:17was a tube containing iodomethane,
41:20the same substance used to poison Patrick O'Hara.
41:25Analysis of Kwan's computer
41:27showed he'd searched for information on the chemical
41:3097 times over the past year.
41:32I'm arresting you for attempted murder
41:39and administering a poison or noxious substance
41:42communist section 23 of the offences
41:44against the persons Act 1861.
41:46Now, both of those offences occurred
41:48in Newcastle-upon-Taylor.
41:49At his trial,
41:58Kwan denied the charge of attempted murder.
42:01But shortly after the jury was sworn in,
42:04there was a dramatic development.
42:06Kwan pleaded guilty
42:08after he heard the weight of evidence against him.
42:11The prosecution opened their case
42:13and it was at that point
42:15where he realised the game was up.
42:16There was no denying it anymore
42:18and he threw in the towel
42:20essentially because he knew
42:21he couldn't get away with this one.
42:24A GP has been jailed for 31 years
42:27for what a judge described
42:29as a plot to kill a man in plain sight.
42:32Thomas Kwan injected his mother's partner
42:35with a poisonous chemical
42:36in a bid to stop him benefiting from her will.
42:40His victim told the court
42:41the murder attempt had left him
42:43a shell of an individual.
42:45First of all, I'd like to thank the judge
42:46for that sentencing
42:47and I think justice has been done today.
42:50Secondly, I'd like to thank the NHS,
42:52especially the RVI hospital.
42:54Without this, I don't think I would have survived.
42:56Thank you very much.
42:57Take care, bye.
42:58Mr O'Hara really thought
43:00that he was going to die at several points
43:02during his ordeal.
43:03He has PTSD
43:05and his relationship with Kwan's mother is over
43:08and he's been left with visible scars on his body
43:13that he sees every time he gets changed.
43:17He has to live with the knowledge
43:19that somebody who he trusted
43:21and would have thought of as a caring person
43:23has gone out to try and kill him.
43:24He has a sense of death.
43:36I hope to see you next time we're going to die.
43:39See you next time.
43:41Transcription by CastingWords
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