‘Stranger than fiction’: Sunderland doctor Thomas Kwan’s plan for murder

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Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction," said the prosecuting barrister, Peter Makepeace KC, as he outlined a case which reads like the plot of an airport thriller. Think of an Agatha Christie-inspired Columbo episode with a splash of Breaking Bad.

The story of the outwardly respectable GP Thomas Kwan and his plot to kill a man he greedily saw as standing in the way of his inheritance is a wild one.