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00:00The arrest is the pivotal moment in any investigation.
00:12If you get it wrong, then it's game over.
00:17Get in the ground now!
00:21Police officer with a taser!
00:24Taser, taser, taser!
00:25Taser, taser, taser!
00:30Don't do some stuff!
00:44Everything they're doing is on body-worn video.
00:46Police!
00:48Everything they're doing would be examined by defence lawyers.
00:52Something's wrong, man!
00:54They can't make any mistakes.
00:56I haven't done anything wrong!
00:58BEEPING
01:02Three people wanted in connection with the murder of Sara Sharif
01:21are believed to be on their way back to Britain.
01:24Her father, stepmother and uncle all fled the country
01:27after the 10-year-old was killed at her home in Surrey last month.
01:33When you're planning an arrest, the environment is going to be hugely important
01:38in terms of how safely it can be conducted.
01:42And probably one of the most challenging environments
01:44is going to be something like an aircraft.
01:48It's a very confined space where you've got chairs, a narrow aisle,
01:52so people can't move around freely.
01:55So imagine if somebody were to become violent.
01:57That's a very difficult place in order to manage that.
02:02They make their way through the aisles into business class
02:08and you can imagine if you're one of the other passengers
02:11and you're seeing all these police officers on board the plane
02:15wondering what's going on.
02:17It must have been a pretty scary moment for those people on the plane.
02:21If we were to take one individual person being arrested,
02:29we'd probably be talking about four or five officers at least.
02:34Well, we've got three here,
02:36all with the potential of causing trouble on this plane.
02:41Very quickly, they get an indication that they're going to be compliant.
02:43We have three people who have been the subject of an international manhunt
02:56and they know that the game is up.
02:59They're fully expecting this.
03:01And she says,
03:01Here we are, you're looking for us.
03:04Where's your bag?
03:05Have you got a, don't you have his bag?
03:07Uh, he does.
03:09He does, yeah.
03:11Which one is your bag?
03:12I don't have any bag.
03:13You have no bag, do you?
03:14Good one.
03:15We'll look over here, smoke his feet.
03:16They can't take what he says at face value.
03:20The fact he's saying, I haven't got a bag.
03:21When she said that he has,
03:24they will have to, for themselves,
03:26make sure he doesn't have a bag,
03:28make sure there's nothing on that plane
03:30that he's tried to hide or try to distance himself from.
03:34Were you in the middle seat here?
03:35Yeah, just around the middle seat, yeah.
03:37How do you know?
03:38OK.
03:38Can you check up in there for us, mate?
03:40A complicating factor here is the passengers are still on the plane,
03:43but there would have been an element of,
03:45let's make sure after everyone's got off,
03:47there's still nothing on there that could have been discarded.
03:50So the plane could be there for quite a while afterwards
03:52until the police are happy that we can release it,
03:55that there isn't any evidence on there that we're going to miss.
03:57The call came in at 2.47.
04:21Sorry, police, how can I help?
04:23Hello?
04:24Yes, hello.
04:25Is everything OK?
04:25On the other end of the line was a man
04:30who sounded very distraught, very upset.
04:36I think that was a very interesting phrase.
04:51He said that he legally punished his daughter,
04:55that he did beat her, but he did it legally.
04:58I need you to take a breath,
04:59because I cannot understand what you're saying, OK?
05:02Your daughter has died.
05:03I killed my daughter.
05:05I killed my daughter.
05:10OK.
05:11Hello?
05:12Hello?
05:13Yes, hello?
05:13I can't do this joke.
05:16I'm on the road, please.
05:22So at this stage, in the operator's mind,
05:24the most important thing is,
05:26we need to get police there quickly,
05:28because he may be mistaken.
05:31She might be alive,
05:32and we can save her.
05:34They get inside this property,
05:54Come back.
05:57Police!
06:00They get inside this property, this family home.
06:05Police, hello, anyone here?
06:07Do a search downstairs, no 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 10-year-old girl.
06:31She wasn't sleeping, she was dead.
06:46The caller identified himself as Irfan Sharif
06:50and gave the operator the name of his victim.
06:54Sarah Street, S-A-R-A, she's only 10 years old.
06:59Why so?
07:01The officers who found Sarah 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?
07:23About 36 hours ago.
07:26This happened 36 hours ago?
07:29Yes.
07:32Where are you right now?
07:33I need to know where you are.
07:53Police are hunting for three adults
07:55after the discovery of a 10-year-old girl's body in Surrey.
08:00Sarah Sharif was found at her home in Woking on Thursday morning
08:04following a call from her father.
08:06He's now gone missing along with her stepmother and uncle.
08:10As the search got underway,
08:16police 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
08:27and then began working as a minicab driver.
08:30Now, in their investigation,
08:31police realised that he actually had a history of domestic violence.
08:36He had abused at least two of his former partners
08:39and that was even before he met Sarah's mother.
08:43Shortly after Sarah's birth in 2013,
08:47social workers drew up a child protection plan for her.
08:51She later spent time in foster care.
08:55When her parents split in 2015,
08:58her 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 Sarah.
09:16Now, that is because he claimed that her mother
09:19had in fact been the one who was abusive towards her.
09:22That is something she has always denied
09:24and there has never been a shred of evidence about that.
09:28By then, Sharif was living with his new partner,
09:32Beanish Batool, and their three other children.
09:35It was here in Surrey
09:39that Sarah attended her new primary school.
09:47Her headteacher said that she was a very happy child.
09:51She loved her music, she played the guitar,
09:54she wanted to sing,
09:55she had dreams of going on to the X Factor
09:59and also been a ballet dancer.
10:01So there initially weren't any signs, really,
10:04from the school's point of view,
10:06that there was anything wrong with Sarah.
10:08But behind the scenes,
10:10she was being subjected to the most horrific abuse.
10:13When Sarah did begin presenting with injuries,
10:23her teachers raised it with Sharif.
10:26He responded with complaints
10:28that other children were bullying her
10:30because she was a Muslim.
10:32In April 2023,
10:34he said she would be homeschooled.
10:37From then,
10:39till her death four months later,
10:41Sarah was never seen outside.
10:44It was a three-bedroom house,
10:47so not a big space for
10:49Irfan Sharif,
10:51Beanish Batool,
10:52Sarah,
10:53her siblings.
10:53Also in that house,
10:56Sarah's uncle,
10:57Faisal Malik,
10:58who had come over from Pakistan,
11:00and during these four months,
11:02it's very clear
11:03that the violence against Sarah
11:06accelerated.
11:08I think she was naughty
11:09over the last three, four weeks,
11:12and I was giving her punishment
11:14that she to sort her out.
11:17And yes,
11:18I'm a cruel father.
11:23Although doctors have yet
11:32to confirm the exact cause of death,
11:35an initial post-mortem
11:36found multiple injuries
11:38sustained over an extended period.
11:41Meanwhile,
11:42police have issued an urgent appeal
11:43to anyone who knows
11:45where the suspects may have gone.
11:49An important element
11:51in any murder investigation,
11:52especially when you're trying
11:52to find somebody
11:53is to look at their phone records.
11:56And the phone records showed
11:57that Batool had contacted
11:59a travel agent.
12:00Welcome to travel.
12:01How may I help?
12:02And there was actually
12:04a recording of the call
12:05so they could listen to it
12:06and hear her demeanor.
12:08Hi there.
12:09I'm not sure you know
12:09about your need
12:10right here to Pakistan.
12:12All right.
12:13So where in Pakistan
12:14do you want to go, ma'am?
12:16It's time for us.
12:17What is really striking
12:19is she sounds completely calm
12:22and thinking that she's on the phone
12:24trying to book tickets
12:25to flee the country
12:26and Sarah, her body,
12:29is lying upstairs
12:30and she had been murdered.
12:32And I think that is
12:33very, very chilling.
12:35Your travel dates, please.
12:37At least possible tomorrow.
12:39OK.
12:41And return?
12:42Um, single.
12:53A trawl of CCTV at Heathrow
12:56confirmed that the family
12:57had boarded a flight
12:59to the Pakistani capital.
13:01The hunt for Sarah's killers
13:03was now international.
13:06The UK doesn't have
13:07an extradition treaty
13:08with Pakistan.
13:10So this would have been
13:11a real moment of tension
13:12for the investigating officers
13:14and the real fear
13:15that are they going
13:16to flee justice
13:17and we're never going
13:18to be able to get them back
13:19for the crimes
13:20that they've committed.
13:38I'll explain more outside,
13:39OK?
13:40Who?
13:40I'll explain more outside.
13:42The arrest of Irfan Sharif
13:46and his two fellow suspects,
13:48Beanish Batul
13:49and Faisal Malik,
13:51came after a manhunt
13:52lasting nearly five weeks.
13:54And it all started
13:56with his 999 call.
13:59So where are you?
14:00I cannot give more detail.
14:01I promise I'll come back.
14:05I'll find, I'll face the desert.
14:10OK.
14:11Like, give me a landmark.
14:13Give me anything.
14:13Where are you?
14:14Do you know what town you're in?
14:17I don't know.
14:18Within days of the 999 call,
14:32the 999 call,
14:33detectives knew Sharif
14:34had flown to Pakistan's capital,
14:37Islamabad.
14:40Soon afterwards,
14:41the authorities there
14:42tracked him down
14:43to Jalun,
14:43a town 70 miles south.
14:47The police in Pakistan
14:50were as helpful
14:51as they could be
14:53and they went out
14:54of their way
14:54when they essentially
14:55didn't have to.
14:56There was nothing compelling them
14:58to help the police over here,
15:00but professionally,
15:01that's what they chose to do.
15:03We know that they carried out
15:05a number of raids
15:06on properties
15:07connected to Irfan Sharif,
15:10Beanish Batool,
15:11the family over in Pakistan
15:13and various family members
15:15were also questioned as well
15:17as they tried to locate
15:19the three of them.
15:20They were putting
15:21a lot of pressure on them.
15:23They really wanted to find them
15:24and I think that pressure
15:26was really growing on them
15:27and that is why
15:28they decided to release
15:29this extraordinary video.
15:30All of our family members
15:33have gone into hiding
15:34as everyone is scared
15:35for their safety.
15:45Irfan Sharif really takes
15:47a back seat.
15:47He's sitting back.
15:49He's not speaking.
15:50Beanish Batool
15:51is doing all of the talking.
15:53And in that video,
15:55it was really, really striking
15:56that they mentioned
15:57Sara just once.
15:58Firstly, I would like
16:00to talk about Sara.
16:01Sara's death was an incident.
16:04They are extremely careful
16:06and keep what they say
16:08about Sara to a minimum
16:10because it's clear
16:12that they know
16:12that when they eventually
16:14got back to the UK
16:15that they will have
16:16a lot of questions to answer.
16:18Our family in Pakistan
16:19are severely affected
16:20by all that is going on.
16:22They are harassing
16:23my extended family.
16:24They came across
16:25as very cold,
16:27calculated.
16:29Bear in mind
16:30that Irfan Sharif
16:31had admitted
16:32in his phone call
16:33to killing his daughter.
16:35There they were
16:35in this video
16:36not talking about Sara
16:38but are talking
16:39about themselves
16:39and about how
16:40they were fearing
16:41for their own lives
16:42and I think
16:43that was quite extraordinary.
16:44My main concern
16:45is that the Pakistani police
16:47will torture or kill us.
16:48That is why
16:49we have gone into hiding.
16:50Shortly after the video
16:56was posted to the media
16:57police found Sharif's
16:59other children
16:59at a house
17:01owned by his father.
17:04Only then
17:05with the net closing in
17:07did he,
17:08his partner Batool
17:09and brother Malik
17:10decide to fly back
17:11to Britain
17:12where officers
17:13from the Surrey
17:14investigation team
17:15were waiting.
17:20A question
17:25that I often
17:26used to get asked
17:27when I was dealing
17:28with incidents
17:29similar to this
17:30where you're dealing
17:31with the people
17:32that have committed
17:33those crimes.
17:36How do you act
17:37professionally?
17:37How do you not
17:38let your own emotions
17:39become a factor?
17:43Well,
17:44the simple answer
17:44is you don't.
17:46A lot of the officers
17:46on that plane
17:47would be parents themselves.
17:48They would be aware
17:49of why they're there.
17:52They would be aware
17:53of just the horrific
17:54injuries that were
17:55being caused
17:55to Sarah.
17:57But what they
17:58wouldn't do
17:59is allow themselves
18:00to be affected
18:01in a way
18:02that could hinder
18:03the investigation.
18:07They would know
18:08that everything
18:09they're doing
18:09is on body-worn video.
18:11Everything they're doing
18:12would be examined
18:13by defence lawyers
18:14and it could play out
18:16at court.
18:17They do not want
18:18to be responsible
18:19for these people
18:19that have committed
18:20this crime
18:21to get off at court
18:22because of the way
18:23they've acted.
18:26Yeah,
18:26could you just
18:27confirm your name
18:27for me, please, sir?
18:28Yeah.
18:28What's wrong, Sharif?
18:30Sharif.
18:31Yeah.
18:31What's wrong, Sharif?
18:32So what you do
18:34is you turn
18:34those feelings
18:36that you're a human being,
18:37you're going to have
18:37those feelings,
18:38you're going to have
18:38those feelings
18:39of disgust,
18:40of almost hatred
18:41of these people
18:42because of the acts
18:43they've done,
18:44but you turn that
18:45into your motivation
18:47for making sure
18:47you do a right job
18:49and you get justice
18:50for Sarah.
18:51So,
18:51the time is
18:521947 hours.
18:54The body of Sarah Sharif
18:55was discovered
18:56on the 10th of August
18:572023
18:58on the ******
18:59Hammond Road
19:00in Horsall.
19:01On the injuries
19:01sustained by her
19:02and the investigation
19:03conducted,
19:04you are suspected
19:05of her murder.
19:06You are therefore
19:07arrested for murder
19:08of Sarah Sharif.
19:10You do enough
19:10the same thing
19:11that it may harm
19:12the defense
19:12if you do not mention
19:13my question
19:13something which you
19:14later aren't in court.
19:16Any of you say
19:16maybe they will never
19:17still miss someone
19:18I think.
19:19OK.
19:35What's your understanding
19:36of murder?
19:39Killing someone.
19:40So,
19:42this is
19:43Bina Shpatul
19:43being interviewed
19:44by officers
19:45after being arrested
19:46and throughout
19:48the interview
19:48she replies
19:49no comment.
19:50What happened
19:51to Sarah?
19:52No comment.
19:54Who did that
19:55to Sarah?
19:55No comment.
19:56Now,
19:57she's obviously
19:57got a right
19:58to say no comment
19:59and it may be
20:00that she had
20:01that legal advice
20:02but she
20:03is Sarah's
20:05stepmother
20:05and somebody
20:06who was there
20:07to care
20:07and protect
20:08for her.
20:09No comment.
20:10Do you love
20:11Sarah?
20:11No comment.
20:13It's quite hard
20:14to watch this
20:14because there
20:15is no emotion
20:16whatsoever.
20:17Did you care
20:18about her at all?
20:19No comment.
20:20She really does
20:21give the impression
20:23that she didn't
20:24care for Sarah
20:25and that she wasn't
20:26in any way
20:26connected to her
20:27and comes across
20:29and comes across
20:29very cold
20:29and uncaring
20:30really.
20:45During the trial
20:46the jury
20:47heard evidence
20:48that Sarah
20:49had been
20:49systematically abused
20:51for at least
20:51two years
20:52before her death.
20:53among the evidence
20:56messages from
20:57Batul to her
20:58sister.
20:58I was in the
21:12courtroom
21:13when the
21:14pathologist
21:15was giving
21:15evidence
21:16about Sarah's
21:17injuries.
21:19I just
21:19remember
21:20taking notes
21:21and thinking
21:21it can't get
21:22any worse
21:23and it got
21:24worse
21:24and worse
21:25It's unimaginable
21:36to put yourself
21:38in Sarah's
21:39position for those
21:40last months
21:41of her life.
21:42She'd been
21:43beaten
21:44with a metal
21:46pole
21:46beaten
21:47with a cricket
21:49bat
21:49she'd been
21:50bitten
21:51she'd been
21:53burnt
21:53she'd been
21:54held down
21:55and had
21:56an iron
21:57a hot
21:58iron
21:58pressed
22:00into her
22:01buttocks
22:02the pain
22:04that this
22:04young girl
22:05had gone
22:05through
22:05is unbearable
22:06to think
22:07about.
22:12The jury
22:13also heard
22:14a harrowing
22:14account of
22:15what happened
22:16on August
22:16the 8th
22:172023
22:17and the
22:19last hours
22:19of Sarah's
22:20life.
22:21On the
22:23day that
22:23Sarah
22:23died
22:25Batul
22:25was at
22:25home
22:26she makes
22:27phone calls
22:28to Irfan
22:28Sharif
22:29and she
22:29asks him
22:30to go
22:31home
22:31because
22:31Sarah
22:32was
22:33seriously
22:33ill
22:34at that
22:34point.
22:35Before
22:36he goes
22:36home
22:37he stops
22:37off at
22:37a shop
22:38and he's
22:38seen
22:39on CCTV
22:39making
22:41the stop
22:41at a shop
22:42near his
22:42house.
22:43He then
22:44makes
22:44his way
22:44back
22:45home
22:45and
22:46he
22:47told the
22:48court
22:49that
22:49he thought
22:50that Sarah
22:50was
22:51playing
22:52around
22:52messing
22:52around
22:53pretending
22:53that she
22:54was
22:54unwell.
22:57So here
22:57we have
22:58a little
22:58girl
22:58who's
22:59unwell
23:00who should
23:01be being
23:02cared for
23:03by her
23:04father.
23:05Somebody
23:05should be
23:06doing
23:06something
23:06to try
23:07and help
23:08her but
23:08instead
23:08what Sharif
23:10does is
23:10he beats
23:11her.
23:11Beats
23:12her around
23:12her abdomen
23:13with a
23:14metal pole.
23:15Hits
23:15her across
23:16her head
23:16causing
23:17a wound
23:17to her
23:17head.
23:18So these
23:18are the
23:18last
23:19things
23:19that
23:20Sarah
23:21experiences
23:22in her
23:23life
23:23rather than
23:24her father
23:25caring for
23:26her.
23:26He's
23:27beating
23:27her.
23:41Despite
23:42Sharif
23:42claiming
23:42Sarah's
23:43death
23:43was
23:43unintentional
23:44the jury
23:45found him
23:46guilty
23:46of murder.
23:47he was
23:49jailed
23:49for life
23:50with a
23:50minimum
23:51of 40
23:51years.
23:53Batul
23:53who had
23:54encouraged
23:55and taken
23:55part in
23:56the abuse
23:56was convicted
23:57of the
23:57same
23:58offence
23:58and received
23:59a minimum
24:00of 33
24:01years.
24:03Malik
24:03who was
24:03found guilty
24:04of causing
24:05or allowing
24:05the death
24:06of a child
24:06was jailed
24:07for 16
24:08years.
24:11Summing
24:11up the
24:12judge said
24:12Sarah was
24:13a victim
24:14of torture.
24:20When you
24:21see that
24:21video of
24:22Sarah
24:23playing the
24:23guitar,
24:24singing,
24:26happy,
24:27innocent
24:27little girl,
24:28it is
24:30really difficult
24:31to believe
24:32the horror
24:33of what she
24:34was enduring
24:34at home.
24:36And I
24:39think that
24:39does show
24:40her resilience,
24:42her strength,
24:42that she was
24:43fighting really
24:44until her body
24:46really couldn't
24:47take any more.
24:48The details
24:49of what she
24:50had to endure
24:52will stay
24:53with me
24:54forever.
24:54her.
25:24Early morning rage, the six o'clock knock, sometimes it would be called, is a really
25:33common tactic that we use.
25:35The huge advantage is that the suspect or the person of interest is going to be in.
25:43You know, it's too early to be going to work, it's too early to be doing the school run,
25:47it's too early to go to the shops, it's too early to be doing anything.
25:50Okay, are you happy to talk in here?
25:53I think as well the police officers that go into these early morning raids would have
25:56been up for a good few hours, so they've had to get to work, they've been briefed, they've
26:00had coffee, probably lots of coffee, breakfast, they're driving there, they've got big adrenaline
26:06and the advantage of that over someone who's just woken up and half asleep is vast.
26:21The quiet village of Ingleby Barwick.
26:24Home to 52-year-old Dr Thomas Kwan.
26:29For years, he's been a respected family GP with an unblemished reputation.
26:36But now he's at the top of the police wanted list, suspected of using his medical skills
26:41and knowledge to try and kill a man.
26:44He seems quite calm and he seems, in the video and the footage, cooperative. You know, I think the officers were happy with the way he was behaving, he certainly wasn't.
26:49You know, shoved in handcuffs and thrown to the floor. You know, he was speaking to them as he should.
27:24Whilst in the house, officers made an alarming discovery, a 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.
27:49It follows the discovery of unknown toxic substances at a house in Ingleby Barwick.
27:55Police, fire and ambulance crews are all currently at the scene and warning the public to stay away.
28:02They were there for days. There were people in hazmat suits and emergency services were there,
28:13trying 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.
28:36They've still got a job to do. They've still got to arrest him.
28:39But they've also now got a dangerous situation.
28:41They're probably considering, you know, who else is in the house that could be hurt.
28:45The neighbours, the local surrounding area.
28:47You know, their personal safety.
28:49They're not going to be wearing the kit that they need to be wearing in this scenario.
28:53You know, is this house going to blow up at any minute? Who knows?
28:58So their brains are obviously fully engaged in two parts here.
29:01The 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.
29:23An emergency admission to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.
29:29A patient, Patrick O'Hara, has complained of searing pain in his left arm.
29:36Initially, medics thought that it was just a reaction to a Covid jab, which can sometimes happen.
29:42He was sent home. He was given painkillers and antibiotics.
29:47And that was hoped, presumably, that that would solve the issue.
29:51Remarkably, he managed to sleep that night.
29:54But the next morning he woke up and his arm was blistered.
29:58It was discoloured and he was in absolute agony.
30:03After a second hospital admission, doctors rushed their patient to intensive care.
30:09Here, they made a startling diagnosis.
30:14He was infected with the so-called flesh-eating bug, necrotizing fasciitis.
30:25Necrotizing fasciitis is a secondary bacterial infection, which can appear after extensive tissue damage.
30:31The problem is, with the tissue damage generating dead cells, those dead cells can serve as breeding ground for different types of bacteria.
30:44They can then enhance the tissue damage that's already there.
30:48And depending on the development of that infection, they can reach the bloodstream leading to sepsis, which can be fatal.
30:55Over the next five days, surgeons performed three emergency operations, cutting away a section of Mr. O'Hara's upper arm.
31:14To 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.
31:30Iodomethane 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.
31:46But these are life-changing injuries.
31:48Patrick 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.
32:05It followed two letters from the community-associated nursing team, offering him a home visit.
32:13There 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.
32:27There was no reason to believe that it was anything other than a genuine offer from the NHS.
32:33After accepting the invitation, Mr. O'Hara received an early morning visit from a man identifying himself as a male nurse.
32:50He 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.
32:59So he's carrying out health checks over a remarkably long time.
33:06Eventually, the point comes where he offers Mr. O'Hara a Covid booster jab and says it's necessary because of his age.
33:13It'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.
33:35They 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.
34:05As Patrick O'Hara fought for his life in hospital, detectives tried to identify anyone who may have held a grudge against him.
34:18Time and again, the same name came up.
34:22His partner's son, Thomas Kwan.
34:26Thomas Kwan was a very well-educated, intelligent man.
34:29He 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.
35:12As her eldest son, Kwan believed the property would become his on her death.
35:21But then he made a new discovery.
35:23Kwan 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.
35:44So 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.
36:07And he's really, really putting it on her. You know, this is an older lady. She's in her, you know, her last years of her life. Why would you do that to her? But he doesn't think like that.
36:16Next, Kwan bombarded his mother with messages telling her to reconsider her decision.
36:31He secretly installed spyware on her laptop so he could monitor all her financial dealings.
36:38When 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.
36:57The police arrived at the house, but ultimately, Mr O'Hara and his mum decided not to go through with any kind of criminal complaint.
37:06They 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. But he was warned about his future behaviour.
37:21The financial feud was just one reason for the police to be suspicious of Kwan.
37:28Early in the investigation, his mother noted how the man who gave the injection had the same height and build.
37:36After recovering surveillance footage of that same man approaching the house, officers could see the resemblance for themselves.
37:43Kwan was obviously now a suspect. He's a GP, he has medical knowledge. He'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. His own mother has said it's a resemblance.
38:02And there's also a clear and consistent CCTV. You're able to follow his every single move.
38:08By 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.
38:47When Kwan left his property, he looked at maps, you know, he looked at where there would be ANPR CCTV.
38:55He took a roads 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.
39:04After 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.
39:28The following morning, Kwan emerges from his room wearing a long coat, a woolly hat, tinted glasses, blue surgical gloves and a clinical mask.
39:52With 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.
40:18Although he was meticulous with other areas of his planning, it just didn't look very convincing to me at all.
40:25But he obviously thought it worked and it fooled the people that needed to be fooled.
40:29During their search of Kwan's property, police found the fake ID on his laptop.
40:51They also recovered an A to Z of chemicals.
40:56They found arsenic, which has been used as a poison for centuries.
41:02They 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.
41:29Analysis 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, communist section 23 of the offences against the persons are 1861.
41:50Now, both of those offences occurred in your castle upon time.
41:53At his trial, Kwan denied the charge of attempted murder.
42:06But shortly after the jury was sworn in, there was a dramatic development.
42:10Kwan pleaded guilty after he heard the weight of evidence against him.
42:15The prosecution opened their case and it was at that point where he realised the game was up.
42:20There was no denying it anymore and he threw in the towel essentially because he knew he couldn't get away with this one.
42:27A 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.
42:49First 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.
42:58Without this, I don't think I would have survived.
43:01Thank you very much. Take care, thanks.
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.
43:13And he's been left with visible scars on his body that he sees every time he gets changed.
43:22He 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.
43:29Thank you very much.
43:30Thank you very much.
43:59Thank you very much.
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