A doc has admitted attempting to execution his mother's spouse with poison successful a quality implicit a will.
Thomas Kwan, 53, had antecedently denied the offence against Patrick O'Hara, who was fixed a toxin which caused a "rare and life-threatening flesh-eating disease," Newcastle Crown Court heard.
Prosecutors said Kwan went to "extraordinary" lengths to disguise himself and hole the onslaught astatine the victim's Newcastle location connected 22 January.
Kwan, who lived successful Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, and worked successful Sunderland, is owed to beryllium sentenced astatine a aboriginal date.
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