An Edinburgh dad who was the victim of a poison plot feared for children , after discovering he had consumed a noxious substance once used to kill rats.

Torquil Gundlach spoke out for the first time, after falling ill when h drank of a bottle of vodka which was laced with thallium by Thomas Kwan. The substance is banned as rat poison due to high toxicity, reports the Mirror .

Kwan, a once respected family doctor, had targeted Torquil's father-in-law Patrick O'Hara by sending him poisoned bottles of booze from a fake 'wine and drinks club'. That murderous plan came before Kwan dressed up in disguise as a Covid nurse to administer a poisonous pesticide to Mr O'Hara, then 72, which almost killed him, in a row over Kwan's inheritance.

Patrick unwittingly gave a poisoned bottle of vodk

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