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That Chapter's Thomas Kwan Video: The Doctor Who Disguised Himself as a Nurse
On January 22, 2024, a community nurse calling himself Raj Patel arrived at a Newcastle home to give Patrick O'Hara, 72, a Covid booster. The nurse was in fact Thomas Kwan — a GP, and the son of O'Hara's partner — and the syringe held poison, not vaccine. That Chapter's video follows how the plan was built, and how close it came to working.
That Chapter, hosted by Mike, has built an audience of about 2.29 million subscribers on concise, single-case videos told in a plain, chronological style. This one, published in December 2024, has drawn more than 1.17 million views. Its own description frames the motive in one line: Kwan was bitter about his inheritance, so bitter that he faked a medical identity to inject his mother's partner with what he said was a vaccine — and it was not a vaccine.
Unlike most cases in this genre, this is an attempted murder with a surviving victim, and the video's centre of gravity is the preparation: forged documents, a shell of official process around a home visit, and a disguise good enough to fool two people who knew the man well.
At a Glance
| Video | “The Twisted Case of Thomas Kwan” |
|---|---|
| Channel | That Chapter |
| Published | December 23, 2024 |
| Length | ~22 minutes |
| Views | 1,179,713 |
| Subject | The 2024 attempted murder of Patrick O'Hara by GP Thomas Kwan; a fake Covid booster, a nurse disguise, and an inheritance motive |
What the Video Covers
The video opens with the background in Newcastle and Teesside. Thomas Kwan, 53, was an established GP living in Ingleby Barwick. His relationship with his mother, Jenny Leung, had deteriorated over money and inheritance, and the video explains the specific grievance that prosecutors later put at the centre of the case: Leung had changed her will to give her partner of 20 years, Patrick O'Hara, a life interest in her home, which Kwan saw as standing between him and his share of the property.
The middle section reconstructs the plot in broad terms. As the case was presented in court, Kwan spent months preparing: he sent fake letters on NHS letterheads — complete with links and a QR code — offering O'Hara a home visit, set up the appointment through a fictitious service, and arrived on January 22, 2024 in disguise, with fake facial hair and tinted glasses, introducing himself as a nurse named Raj Patel. Inside the home for around 40 minutes, he took blood pressure readings from both Leung and O'Hara — neither recognised him — and then injected O'Hara with what he said was a Covid booster. O'Hara felt immediate, severe pain. In the days that followed he was diagnosed with necrotising fasciitis, a life-threatening flesh-eating disease, and spent time in intensive care undergoing surgery. The substance was later identified in court as iodomethane, a pesticide chemical chosen, the judge said, because it would be difficult for medics to detect.
The final section follows the investigation and the court outcome. Hospital staff established that the letters were not genuine NHS documents, police were alerted, and a search of Kwan's home found an extensive collection of poisons and related research. Kwan pleaded guilty to attempted murder partway through his trial at Newcastle Crown Court and was sentenced in November 2024 to 31 years and five months. The sentencing judge described it as an audacious plan to murder a man in plain sight, motivated by financial gain, and one that struck at public confidence in the health profession. O'Hara survived, but told the court the attack had left him a shell of his former self.
Strengths
The preparation is the story, and the video treats it that way. Many case videos rush the setup to reach the crime. Here the forged letters, the disguise, and the use of a routine vaccination appointment are the substance of the case, and the chronological telling lets viewers see how each layer of official-looking process was meant to lower the victim's guard.
The victim's account stays central. Because O'Hara survived, his experience — the pain at the injection site, the hospital ordeal, and the lasting psychological effects he described in court — is part of the record rather than reconstructed around him. The video keeps that perspective in view instead of treating the plot's ingenuity as entertainment.
Efficient at 22 minutes. The video covers the family background, the months of planning, the visit itself, the medical emergency, and a completed trial and sentence without padding. For a case with this much procedural detail, that is a genuinely contained route through it.
Weaknesses
Thin on the medical and forensic detail. How iodomethane was identified, and how doctors connected the injection to the necrotising fasciitis, are among the most consequential parts of the real investigation. At this length the video reports those conclusions more readily than it can explain them, and viewers who want that detail will need the court reporting alongside it.
The wider planning is compressed. Court coverage described a broader obsession with poisons and research extending well beyond the single injection. A 22-minute telling can list that material, but it cannot fully convey the scale of what investigators found or how it was presented to the jury.
Single-narrator limits. As with most That Chapter videos, this is one researcher's telling, with sources in the description rather than examined on screen. It works as a clear introduction to the case, not as a substitute for the primary reporting and court record behind it.
Who Should Watch
- That Chapter regulars — a concise, single-case entry in the channel's familiar style, on an unusual British attempted-murder case.
- Viewers interested in how trust is exploited — the case turns on forged NHS documents and a disguise, and on how routine medical process can be imitated.
- Poison and forensic-case viewers — an uncommon modern poisoning plot, investigated and resolved through medical and documentary evidence.
- True crime newcomers — a contained cast, a clear timeline, and a completed court outcome make this easy to follow in one sitting.
8/10
A clear, well-paced telling of an extraordinary attempted-murder plot — the forged process and disguise are explained step by step, the victim's experience stays at the centre, and the full arc runs from inheritance dispute to a 31-year sentence in 22 minutes. Medical and forensic detail is necessarily compressed.
Source: That Chapter on YouTube (“The Twisted Case of Thomas Kwan,” published December 23, 2024); case background via Newcastle Crown Court sentencing reporting (PA Media, November 2024) and Crown Prosecution Service statements on the guilty plea.