EVIL DOC'S RAT POISON VODKA PLOT

Victim unwittingly drank bottle intended for father-in-law

- BY JEREMY ARMSTRONG

A SCOTS victim of poison plot GP Thomas Kwan has told how he feared for his life after drinking vodka laced with rat killer.

Dad-of-four Torquil Gundlach, from Edinburgh, has told how he fell ill after drinking the Smirnoff Red Label laced with thallium, which was banned as a rat poison due to its high toxicity.

Respected family doctor Kwan had targeted Torquil’s father-in-law Patrick O'Hara by sending him poisoned bottles of booze from a fake ‘wine and drinks club’.

Torquil's hair fell out after drinking the vodka - and his father in law also suffered hair loss.

Kwan then dressed up in disguise as a Covid nurse to administer a poisonous pesticide to Patrick, 72, which almost killed him, in a row over Kwan's inheritance.

Patrick unwittingly gave a poisoned bottle of vodka to Torquil, 51, a project manager, who fell ill after drinking it.

Kwan has pleaded guilty to a second attempt to murder Patrick, who at the time of the plot was partner of Kwan's mother Jenny Leung, and administering the noxious substance to Torquil.